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BOSTON COURIER REPORT 

OF THE 

UNION MEETING 

IN 

FANEUIL HALL, 

TI^XJI^SIDJVSr, DEO. 8"^^^ 18S9. 



Speeches op 

Ex-Gov. LINCOLN, 
EDWARD EVERETT, 
CALEB CUSHING. 

Resolutions Adopted by the Meeting. 

Letters of 

Ex-President PIERCE, 

Judge CURTIS, 

Ex-Govs. MORTON and CLIFFORD, 

Profs. FELTON and PIERCE, 

ERASMUS D. BEACH, and others. 

Names of Signers to the Call. 



[pnONOGRAPUIC REPORT.] 



published by 
CLARK, FELLOWS & COMPANY, 

OFFICE OP THE BOSTON COURIER, 

BOSTON. 






BosTOX, December 14th, 1859. 
This account of the proceedings at Faneuil Hall, on the morning of December 8th, is 
published under the sanction of the Executive Committee. 

WILLIAM APPLETON, 
FRANKLIN HAVEN, 
GEORGE LUNT, 
JOHN T. HEARD, 
HENRY J. GARDNER, 
S. T. DANA, 
SIDNEY WEBSTER, 
LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, 
Executive Committee. 



PRESS OF GEO. C. RAND AND AVERT, 

NO. 3, COKNHILL. 



^l-'^^^^S 



UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL, 



The meeting at Faneuil Hall Thursday morn- 
ing, was the largest raid-day assembly that we re- 
member to have witnessed for a period of many 
years. As early as half-past ten o'clock the hall 
Hself Avas filled, and at eleven o'clock, even the 
3Stibule and stairways were crowded. Indeed, 

was impossible to enter within the outside door 
reason of the throng. Each minute, hvm- 

jds were turning away, disappointed, from the 

lin endeavor to gain admission. 

We give a most complete record of the pro- 
ceedings, beginning with the original call for the 
meeting and the names appended. 

TUe Call for the Meeting. 

In view of the present disturbeil condition of public senti- 
ment, and the dansjers which threaten our Union, the un- 
dersigned respectfully invite the citizens of Massachusetts, 
who honor an 1 cherish that Union— who mean to maintain 
the Constitution of the United States, and faithfully to 
carry out all its requirements and obligations, to meet with 
them at Faneuil Hall THIS DAY, (.Thursday,) at U 
o'clock A. M. 



Nathan Appleton 
Henry J. Uaidaer 
James W. Paige; 
Wm. Appleton 
John T. Heard 
.fames W. Sever 
Francis Skinner 
Chas. G. Greene 
Veter Harvey 
Edward Everett 
E. B. Bigelow 
Wm. Amory 
James M Beebe 
Sidney Webster 

.Ibert Feaiing 

ranklin H^ven 

(eorge Lunt j 

lenry Colt 

.. X. Dana 
i3enj. E. Bates 
J. P. Healy 
C. B. Goodrich' 
E. F. Hodges 
T. W. Pierce 
Leverett Saltonstall 
Peter Butler 
Wm. Parsons 

'. H. Jackson 

imuel F. Coolidfte 
Holmes 



Edward Blake 
Harrison Bitchie 
H. H. Hunnewellj 
Si.tney Bartlett 
I. Sargent 
E . S. Tobey 
F. N. Bradlee 
Jas. Bowdoin Bradlee 
Geo. B. Cary] 
Nathl Thayer 
H. P. Kidder 
James Lee, Jr. 
Thos. Dwight 
Wm. Dwight 
Thos. Motley, Jr. 
Geo. Peabody 
Chas. Wells 
Wm. Thomas 
Geo. H. Kuhn 
I. W. H. Cadamus 
T. B. Curtis 
Israel Whitney 
P. C. Brooks 
Uiiel Crocker 
Will Aspiuwall 
J, Giles 
Tolman Wiley 
James Read 
Geo. W. Lyman 
S G Snelling 



Mark Healey 
Osmyn Brewster 
A. M. Swallow 
J. Thos. Stevenson 
R C Hooper. 
N. Silsbee 

Henry C. HutchingS 
Billings BrigfiS 
William D. Swan 
Enoch Hobart 
S. P. Dexter 
Benj. Poor 
W. H. Milton 
Chas. Cushman 
Gideon I. Mansfield 
F. D. Williams 
Jos. Murduck 
Edwd E. Poor 
Henry A. Gowing 
W. G. Benedict 
Geo. P. Denny 
Geo. O. Hovey 
S. Frothingham Jr 
H. W. Aboot 
■Joshua Lovett 
John D. Sabine 
Zenas Gushing 
Wm. Minot 
John A Loring 
Geo. B Upton 
Jas. McGregor 
J. Wiley Edmands 
Francis Bacon 
Levi Bartlett 
Samuel Wells 
R. H. Eddy 
Farnhani Plummer 
Charles M err jam 
Ozias Goodwin 
R. M. Morse 
Francis M. Weld 
S. P xMeiiam 

J. W. Tyler 

Fredk. I. Bush 

Wm. Starns 

Henry Chafnn 

Arioch Wentworth 

J. M. Murdock 

J M. Roberts 

William W. Clark 

E. T. Stmiels 

Aloiizo Burbank 

E. W. Hale 

Joseph Hiile 

Franklin llmcock 

Thomas Gould 

James Hall 

Wm Hammond 

David Snow, Jr. 

Henry Dean 

H. Z. Meserre 



F. H Story 
N. Hooper 
Geo. R. Minot 
P.T. Jackson 
John Clark. 
John T. Morse 
Edwin H.Hall 
Chas. S. Cutter 
Geo. J. Fi.-ke 
C llulbert 
D. Blndgett 
I. W. Bonnie 
Henry F Cragin 
Wm P. Mason 
T Jefferson Coolidge 
John C. Lee 

D. N. Spooner 
Thos West 
Wm. Sturgis 
B. F. Hallett 
Henry L. Hallett 
Geo. S. Hillard 
W. Raymond Lee 
W. H Gregerson 
John C Crowley 
Selden Crockett 
Geo. T Cuitis 

B. P. Cheney 
David Ellis 

S. N. & H. G.Ufford 
J. W. Clapp 

E. Liveruiore 

C. W. Bridstreet 
John F. Currier 
¥. Johnson 
Charles Meriam 
J. W. Clark 

S. C. Whitcher 
Thos. H. Sactmiten 
C. F. Perkins 
M. Cutter 

B. F. Parker 

J. Owen Litilefield 
N. B. Favor 
Edward Ayers 
H. K. Moore 

C. Wyatt 
Caleb Barker 
Geo. W. Barker 
John Perharn, Jr. 
Edwd. H. Brown 
Franklin Prescott 

F. Sprague 
James Smith 
T. K. Moure 
N. M. Jewell 
Orin M. Head 
Daniel E. McNalley 
F. A. Downiug 

J. F. Ayer 
Joseph Lincoln 



UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 



W. T. Tuckerman 
Jnshuii Seward 
Win. 11. Canit'S 
Charles M. Wood 
Wm. I'araous 

F. II. Jackson 
S. F. C.HjIUlge 
Mark Healy 
Osinyti Brewsler 
Asa Swallovr 

J. T. Stevenson, Jr. 
Nalh Silsbee 
Henry C. Ilutchins 
liillin-s Urijitis 
lleury li. Uliver, Jr. 
Thos. F. Vose 
Ohas. 11. Stearns 
Jos. L. lloUis 
W. U. .MUliken 
Wm. B. God.lard 
Henry Hudson 
1. 1. Sullivan 
J I. Goddard 
John G.iddard 
E. lluuglitou 
J. C. Hunt 
W. B. Patterson 
J no. II. Mahan 
Cbas. Armstrong 
Jno. G. Spear 
Chas. U. Seaver 
Chas E. Stearns 
Oliver Coleman 
Chauiicey M. Paine 
Edw. K. Wheeloct 
Alfred J. Parker 
Edw. Eaton 
Kufas E. Eaton 
Jno. K. Doaue 

G. A. llogers 
Jas. K. Munroe 
Alonzo Hayes 
Chas. Day 

M. R. Deunison 
Chas. Y. Johnson 
W. H. Beal 
Geo. C. Watson 
N. H. Converse 
Jno. S. Doane 
Geo. C. Vose 
Laurence Knowlton 
A. C. Alnswrorih 
Alex. Donaldson 
Wm. II. Vincent 
Wm. Hinuy 
Kben Foster 
Thos. D. Uuincy 
OUver Hall 
Saml. F. White 
Henry Hall 
lienjaiuin Bird 
A. II. ttevens 
Lewis P. B.rd 
Elisha Ford 
Charles Lyon 
Ebenezer Sumner 
[ra Foster 
J. Suret 
C. H. PrescoU 
II. T. Wheeler 
E. M. Smith 
Eben liolden, Ji. 
Isaiah Atkins 
James E. Thacher 
Francis H. bv^an 
Chas. A. Clapp 
Geo. Clark, Jr. 
Belden Page 
Baml. P. Loud 
J. Henry Loud 
Thomas J. llazen 
Geo. H. B mker 
A. B. Wh.eier 
Wm. II. Hichardson 
J. Tiieodore Clark 
George D . Temna 
Barnard Ford 
Wm. F. Lord 
Clarence Sumner 
Moses G. Cobb 



A. Perkins, Jr. 
O. II. Fla-g 
S. T. Sanborn 
Erastus F Dana 
Geo. F. Pierce 
Lyman Nichols 
Jas. C. Converse 
Joseph U. Gray 
E. W. C inverse 
W. U. llurlburt 
H. R. Perkins 
R. Swan 
P. S. Iluckins 
Robert Kelley 

A. G. Taggart 

D. Waldo Salisbury 
John D. Parker 
Chas. Merriam, Ji 
Frank S. Hall 

N. Walker 
Francis C. Adams 
Jesse Eddy 
S. S. Bucklin 
Wil.iam li. Harding 
Nathan Day 
Augustus Brown 
Jfseph Dlx 
Henry M. Snell 
Algernon A. Curtis 
Edward E. Rice 
J. S.Clement 
G. P. K. Walker 

B. F. Welch 
Edwin C.Barnes 
Wm. H. Blood 
Jas. B. Hancock 

C. E. Graves 
Frederick Sweetser 
Chas. H. Alley 
Clarence A. Dorr 
S. W. Richardson 
Henry C. Wainwright 
Josiah Bardwell 

A. C. Lombard 
R B. Williams, Jr 
J. 11. French 
Jas. Dana 
C. II. Cole 

E. D. Brigham 
Isaac II. Wright 
Moses Williams 
Aaron D. Williams 
John D Weld 
Barney Corey 
Aaron D. Weld 

S. L. French 

C. II. Graves 
Levi Bartlett 
Ebr. F. Farrington 
Andrew S. Tozier 

Jas. K. Frothingham, Jr 

Chas. C. Henuhaw 

Luther II. Feltou 

II. L, Cummings 

Daniel Crowley 

John U. Shaltuck 

Francis JI. Andrew 

Wm. Brewster 

Wm. Curtis 

D.D.Kelly 

W. S. Robert 

George Wright 

II. A. Ljud 

A. C. G rover 

W. B. Whitcomb 

John Lothrop 

Lewis Colley 

Geo. S. Wentworth 

John Campbell 

Geo. D. Phillips 

Freeman Ilolden 

Benj. F. Russell 

Samuel Cleaves 

Geo. WriK'ht 

Thomas .Moore 

Jas. 11. Critchett 

Svlvester Bowman 

D. Bowman 
John Dunklee 
0. Holmes 



J. Amory Davis 
Chas. L. Brigham, Jr. 
Chas. A. Thacher 
Geo. II. Vincent 
J. H. Suuiuer 
N.Ripley, Jr., Hull 
Gecrge Newhall 
Alfred C. Thacher 
Francis II. Raymond 
Lewis Pierce 
Chas 11. Pierce 
Lewis F. Pierce 
Wm. 11. Pierce 
Geo. F. Pierce 
Wm. llenshaw 
Augustus Lowell 
J. A. Lowell 
Jos. L. Coolidge 
Albert Drake 
Chas. Henry Parker 
Joseph B. Glover 
J. Francis Tuckerman 
Jo.'ieph P. Gardner 
Rich. D. Rogers 
Arthur Williams 
Jacob C. Rogers 
Eben Bacon 
W. 11. Bryant 
William Perkins 
J. M. Gardner 
R. S. S. Andros. 
John L. Gardner 
Richd. F. Bond 
Joseph Ooohdge 
Sidney Coolidge 
P. Pen-in Ellis 
Nathl. P. Russell 
Edward Dexter 
A. H. Fiske 
P. C. Brooks, Jr. 
Geo. B. Sohier 
Ives Q. Bates 
Wm. P. Lyman 
A. L. Lyman 
S. II. Whitwell 
Richard S. Parker 
William Ropes 
J. Randolph Coolidge 
David Nevins 
Jos. S. Fay 
J. P. JIarquand 
Geo, A. Skinner 
Andrew Cazneau 
Saml. A, Allen 
John Lewis, Jr 
Francis Lincoln 
A. Weeks 
J. F. Weeks 
W. O. Harrington 
James E. Simpson 
J. R. Holmes 
F. A. Parkhurst 
Joseph I. Beals 
Ichabod Weston, Jr 
Rob. R. K-nt 
Chas. D. Bellows 
Laban Beal 
Nathaniel Seaver 
C. Cole 
Thos. llaynes 
Geo. M. Adams 
Washington Snelling 
Edwd. L. Grueby 

E. W. Barker 
A.J. Ilutchins 
Wm. Avrill 
Cyrus Kellsa 
R. L. Hinckley 
Wm. C. Smith 
J. E. Noyes 

A. H. Taylor 
S. C. Allen 
Nalh Sturtev 
John Borrowscale 

F. W. Nickerson 
Jos. W. Grigg 
Lucius Carne 

S W. Maralon, Jr. 
Edward A. Hasty 
Saml. A. Belknap 



A. P. Sears 
Theo. II. Dugan 
D"nni3 Comlry.' 
Sewell Tappan 
Frederick Tudor 
Henry Saltonstall 
Frederick W. Thayer 
Benj. F. Field 

R. A. Ranlett 
R. WhiUm, Jr. 
Isaac Howe 
Amos Smith, Jr 
George Homer 

B. F. Copeland 
Frederick Kidder 
S. P. Stacy 

H. R. Gardiner 
Cjrus Washburn 
J. B. Iluckins 
J. A. S.iuipson 
B. B. Jlagrath 
Jainea C .Merrill 
Job.eph .M. \\ightman 

O.lver St;veiis 
James M. Stevens 
James Lyford 
Jolin Hughes 
Simon S. Ames 
A. G. Wilbor 
John T. Diiigley 
James P. Dexler 
A. S. Haven 
M. D.Ross 
Th iiinas A. Matthews 
Jobiah B. Richardson 
Daniel 11. Whitney 
Jiiseph 11. Jones 
J. U. Lappeii 
Edward H. Dingley 
Porter llartwell 
George W. Tuxbury 
Wm. H. Gieeley 
Jas. Cheever 
Edw. A. Abbott 
Edwin Thompson 
Joseph L. Richards 
Thos. P. Ayer 
John Foster 
Edwin Young 
Robert E. Hudson 
Wm. R. Whitaker 
Henry C. Kendrick 

E. Sampson 
John Tyler 
Joseph Palmer 
Chas. Suule, Jr. 
I. Prichard 
Joseph Greeley 
I. 11. Tomjison • 
Jas. Longley 
Saml. 11. Gookin 
Gustavus Nickerman, Jr. 
i^. B. Tucker 

Theo. D. Townsend 
Wm. C. Codman 
A. S. Wheeler 
S. W. Fowle & Co 
Wm. L. Beal 
Daniel U-laud, Jr 
Richard C. Nichols 
A. Cunningham 
Geo. F. Wilde 
E'en Dale 
J. Abbott 
Benj. F. Mahan 
Amasa D. Gamage 
M. Field F Avler 
P. Adams Ames 
Oliver Ditson 
David M. Balfour 
Alexander Beil 
Lewis BuUard 

F. L. Richardson 
Henry Plymjiton 
Nath. Hammond 
Geo. Whit:>ey 
Jos. W. Howard 
J. W.Taylor 

J M. Bugbee 
Sam'l T. Damon 



UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 



J. W. Taylor 
Ednr. Lander 
John F. Banchor 
J. W. Fairfield 
V Chas. R. Codmaa 

* J. H. Taylor 
Peter Hijfgins 
M. S. Lincoln 
W. Underwood 
W. Q. Cutter 

* Chas. Larkin 
Chas. A. White 
Marshall P. Wilder 
Geo. Renton, M. D. 
Geo. E. Whinton 

» N.W. Turner 
Chas. H. Francis 
Chas. E. Perkins 
Paschal P. P. Ware 
J. P. Crowell 

« D. K. Batchelder 
R. L. Harper 
Richard Ward 
Geo. C. Ward 
F. Bird 

, John Gilbert, Jr 
Henry K. Appleton 

E. Stone Goodwin 
P.Edwards 

F. C. Raymond 
I. G. Ball 

* C.W. Bartlett 
Chas. A. Prince 
William Ballard 
Samuel 0. Ingalls 
John Grover 

► J. P. Otis 

James Bates 

Geo. H. Foote 

Carlton Parker 

John G. R. Smith 
, John E. Dodge 

John C. Gilbert 

Nath. C. Stearns 

Henry Cunningham 

Nelson Barber 
. W. A. FuUum 

L. J. Williams 

Horace Weston 

I. R. Putnam 

Chas. W. Atwood 

Joshua Atwood 

Edwin Story 

Chas. P. Kel>y 

John G. Butler 

E. B. Ford 

J. Grover 

Dyson Dearborn 

J. Henry Wright 

Gilman F, Besent 

H. Lyman Robinson 

C. DriscoH 

John L. Hunnewell 

Wm. W. Whieldon 

John W. Blanchard 

Isaac Emery 

Amasa Pray 

0. J. Davis 

L. F. George 

A. W. Russell 

Richard Scott 

Axel Dearborn 

C. E. Paige 

S. S. Rowe 

J.M.Pike 

Benj. Hosley 

W. A. & C. L. Wright 

J. Wells •, 

H.C. Wright 

Andrew Webster 

Horace 'underwooJ 

S. S. Miles 

Solo. Piper 
I Perry Brigham 

Moses Merrifield 

J. Q. A. Holbrook 

Geo. W. Prentice 

Thos. J. Keef 

Edw.H. Dewson 

Jno. C. Bundy 



John Jeffries, Jr 
B. F. Nourse 
Geo. Biicon 
Tlios, Wigglesworth 
Eben Howes 
Daniel Sharpe 
J. H. Ward 

E. B. Pratt 
James Sword 
John Adams 
Saml. B. llobart 
Darius A. Martin 
Wm. W. KenUrick 
A. D. Peck 

Ezra Farnsworth 
W. H. Wilder 
John Bu.Teis 
Holmes Ammidown 
Lyman C. A'ose 
John Tilton 
John W. White 

A. T. Whiting 
J. B. Moody 
S Cushing 

G. Jackson 
John .■Vmee 
AVoodbury Langdon 
Theo. H. Poque 
T. Fred. Saxton 
S. Pinkham 
R. F. Stevens 
Geo, T. Wright 
Jas. 0. Watson 
W. N. Sawyer, Jr 

B. L. Merrill 
Calvin 0. Tufts 
Henry D, Barnes 
Austin Sumner 

C. H. Potter 
Joseph Curtis 

F. L. Macomber 
J js. R. Tebbetts 
John Aiken 
Daniel Park 
W^m Brarahall 
Benj. C. White 
Wm. H. Elli^on 
C. W. Cartwright 
Jeffrey Richardson 
Isaac Sweetser 
Richard Frothingham, Jr 
Chas Thompson, Jr 
Granville Mears 
Briggs Thomas 

Henry Adams 
Simon Jones 
Thos. C. Stearns 
Geo. Foster 
Saral. B. Rindge 
A. R. Thompson 
Saml. J. M- Homer 
Chas. W. Homer 
S. W. Sargect 
Edw. H. Ammidown 
Chas. W. CogsweU 
C. C. Marble 
CM. Noyes 
Wilson Dibblee 
Dwight Prouty 
J. Coffin Jones Brown 
Miles Washburn 
Geo. A. Whitney 
Jas. M. Greenwood 
Joshua Stetson 
Joseph Sawyer 
Daniel Kimball, Jr 
Tlios. G. Mason 
W. M. Todd 
E. Oakes Lewis 
C. F. Wheelsr 
J. Francis Kimball 
A'Jdison Child 

G. F. Noble 
W. G. Train 
C. E. Stratton 
A. U. White 
James li. Baker 
John T. Smim , 
Lewis Enrticott 

N. F. Frothingham 



Francis Williams 
Chas. De.Nter 

C. H. Duuklee, 
Geo. Sherman, 
John Muzzy 
Saml. J. Miles 
John B. Pazur 
Uobt. M. 0. ituUivan 
Saml. Prince 
Henry Bacon 

W. W. Webber 
Chas. F. W^ells 
W'm. S. Tilton 
Jos. B. Tilton 
Saml. G.Thayer 
S. H. Lewis & Son 
Geo. W. Abbott & Co 
Jno. B. Robinson 
Francis K. Fisher 
Thos. A. Guddard 
M. Lincoln Bowles 
Danl. A. Paich 
Wm. B. Davis 

B. F. Warner 
F. G. Faxon 
Caleb B. Watts 
A. J. Bailey 

S. W.Jenkins 
F. H, Jones 
J. F. Spaulding 
Rufus Choate 
Geo. N. Thomson 
Christopher Fish 
g. B. Conant 
J. N. Phipps 

I. M. Bell 

R. H. Douglass 
Thos. C. Shirley 
J. H. Guppy 
Chas Cotton 
Wm. E. Brown 
Sewall B. Bond 
Austin White 
Ira D. Davenport 
Earl Shaw 
Ziba Stearns 

D. A. Potter 

D. L. Powers 

C. C. Bishop 
John G. Tirrell 

D. B. Roberts 
Jas. Power 

W. A. Mckerson 
"Wm. N. Foster 
C. W. Haitshorn 
S. Williams 
Wm. H. Colburn 
Bradford Kinsley 
Saml. L. Montague 
Ira Peirce 
Weare D. Bickford 
Thos. J. Dunbar 
D;ivid W. Child 
Wm. F. Wentworth 
J. C. Brown 
Wm. R. Paine 
S ephen Tilton 
Wm. C. Peters 
Wm. Rogers 
H. C. Thacher 
Wm. F. Worthington 
Eben S. Fisher 
Nicholas Reggio & Co 
J. lasigi 

E. W. Rollins 
Thos. L. Smi;h 
Danl. K. Sortwell 
John Buniham 
Jos. A. Alley 
Jas. H. Rist 

N. D. Silshee 

II. N. Rice 
Harvey Lincoln 

E. C. Wade, Jr 
IL Stedman 
Saml G.Reed 
Chas ■\. Lombard 
J. A. Glidden 
Prescott Bigelow 
Chas. L. Uayward 



Edward Bartlett 
Samuel Nicolson 
G. Mountfort 
Isaac Rich 
Wm. P. Lee 
William Phipps. Jr. 
Benj. Cushing 
Wm. Merriam 
Stephen C. Perrin 
Wm. lleyward 
J. Parker Whitney 
Alfred Winsor 

E. B. Thayer 
Thomas Simmons 
Hejiry Evans 
John F. Ehot 
Howard Snelling 

A. Hobart, Jr. 

F. Thompson 
Wm. Thwing 
Jas. W. llannum 
Wm. E. Hodi;king 
N. W. BridgS 
Sandford M. Hunt 
Benj. Bruce 
Chas. L. Haley 
Arthur Pickering 
Chas. Arnold 
Samuel S. Allen 
E. M. Dunbar 
Chas. A. Bead 
Wm. A. Bates 
James Butler 
Samuel Q. Cochran 
Samuel F. Dalton 
John S. Blake 
Wm. D. Lciran 
John C. Blown 
Eben'zer Eaton 
Chas. H. Bailey 
Robert Swan 

Wm. W. Swan 
SheUon Barry 
M. R. Culier 
T. P. Wilson 
Thos. S. Dennett 
J. D McGill 
R. Gilpatrick 
Thos. O'Neill 
Henry D. Todd 
P. S. Barnard 
Adam Heinz 
Wm. E. Cashman 
Jacob Bambaud 
Jacob Norris 

G. U. Doggett 

B. O. Hudson 
N. Washburn 
Geo. P. Bullens 
IL Blainey 
Wm. Parsons, Jr. 

C. B. Damon 
Jas. H. Dutee 
Wm. Makepiece 
Jas. Jackson 
W. C. Rives, Jr. 
Jno. H. Roeers 
W. H. 11. KendaU 
Andrew Davis 
Edward P. Cutter 
L W. Washburn 
Thaddeus Nichols 
Wm. H. Smith 
Samuel S. Pierce 
J. E. Bubee 

W. C. H. Graves 
W. Chapman 
B. F. Adams 
Jas. McLane 
Paul Willard 
M, Hession 
Henry Haddock 
A L. Lincoln 
Chas. M. Foss 
John Watson 
B. F. Lnud 
Silas Pierce 
Jno. C. Chaffen 
E. W. Baxter, Jr. 
S. J. Prescott 



UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 



Giaeon F. Thayer 
\Viu. t'. U JO J son 
Eiiwanl Lawrence 
Jos. Meyer 
TtiiiS. is. Dexter 
T. C. Amory Dexter 
Henry Hice 
Jabez 0. Homer 
Geo. H. Cutter 
T. f. Manilell 
AliiiiKi) Hamilton 
V. K. Mayiiarii 
L. J, Uradish 
\Vm. U. Uall 
J. C. Wilson 
a. K. Palmer 
J. Kdwards, Jr 
Albert Morse 
Duller N. Kichards 
J. I'. Bliss 
L. Robinson 
U. M.Stanfield 
l-nos J. Slone 
George I'ierce 
Henri A. Mansfield 

A. H. Silvester 
E. D. Vosd 
Chas. II. Ward 
S. B. Fuller 

N. E llogers 
John 8. Tyler 
Eno. W. Thayer 
J. M. Petteogill 
John F. Bouve 
Geo. Bates Blake 
Geo. C. Lee 
O. \V. Peabody 
E. M. Pratt 

B. B. Forbes 
John T. Coolidge 
George M. Barnard 
James C. \\ ild 

J. G. Goodnow 

B. L. Allen 
E. Rhoades 
Thomas C. Amory 
S. G. lingers 
Daniel Goodwin 
John BroiiKS Parker 
T. H. Brown 

J. Davis. Jr. 
John D. Bates 
S. U.IIuwe 
Jos. B. Frost. Jr. 
11. S. Dunn 
\Vm. U. Prescott 
J. N. Turner 
A. A. Shedd 
AVm. D Tnayer 
■yVm. U. Uichardsoa 
Chris. E. Ooudwin 
James S Kimball 
A. L. Lovejuy 
H. B S impson 
John Milcher 
Geo. L. Thayer 
Edw. P. Thayer 
Charles Scudder 
J. P. Rogers 
J. K. Manning 
E. D. Eager 
J. E. Daniell 
n. C. Howard & Co 
K. J. Long 
T. H. Perkins 
Chas. Amory 
ThoH. A Lindiee 
Joshua II. Daws 
Chas. Mifflin 

C. B. Fesse.iden 
Francis W. Welch 
John Ballard 
Thos. B Ilawkea 
Joseph Ballard 
Geo. L. Pratt 
Chas. Torrey 
Fri.ncis Welch 
Will. .M. Byrnes 
]!. If. Zool 
Frank. A. Hall 



B. T. Reed 

Wm. Applet'in, Jr. 
G o. W. t rait 
W. Dalton 
Thos. Motley 
fi. A. Emmons 
Chas. J. Ilendee 
S. E. Sprague 
II. W. Fuller 
Milton Andros 
Charles Inches 
J. G. Kidder 
Caleb S. Curtis 
Geo. S. Gushing 
Nathan Matthews 

A. W. Conant 

F. E. Bacon 

C. R. Lamb 
Gordon McKay 
C. W. Spofford 
T. E. Chickering 
John A. Cummings 

B. W. Field 
Joseph H. Barret 
J. P. Draper 
\Vm. Muuroe 

Chas. Levi Woodbury 
Elisha Bassett, 
Watson Freeman, 
J. H. Conant 

C. \V. Cunningham 
S. W. Green 

J. II. Cheeney 
Horace D. dd 
George Allen 
Thos. Hall 
A. S. Lewis 
J.K.Hall 
N. B. Gibbs 
Wm. H. Foster 
Alden Glir..rd 
Enoch Martin 
Chas. Homer 
Andrew J. Ilolman 
Nahum Capen 
Saml. W. Clifford 
Thos. P. Rich 
Albert Glover 
C. Wakefield 
Otis Daniel 
John H. Swasey 
Theodore Prentice 
Theo. A. Neal 
William Pratt 
J. Blake 
Otis Rich 
Fred A. Brown 
Chas. II. Sanborn 
John M. O.\lon 
Saml. S. Pierce 
H. French 
Francis Davidson 
Emmons Raymond 
E. A. Boardniaa 
F'rancis Fisher 
Jos. E. Thayer 
A. Freeman 
W. II. Boardman 
R S. Fay. Jr 
Henry S. Ward 
A. W. Austin 
Henry B. Groves 
B.R.Curtis 

G. W. Warren 

C. F. & H. D Parkman 
Harvey Jewell 
Roht. B. Williams 
J. H. W. Page 
Henry Burroughs 
G. I). Guild 

E. T. Osborn 
P. E. \\ heeler 
James Oakes 
Frank Evans 

F. W. Andrews 
S. Amory Head 
Wm. C. Otis 
Joshua Blake 
Edward ikes 
W. A. Cochran 



F. Nickerson 
Jacob W. Seaver 
Matthew Bartlett 
J.Taylor 
W R. Norcrois 
Isaac Thacher 
John Ferris 
11. P. Bruce 
J. H. Silsby 
Elijah Drew 
Amasa W. Bailey 
Phinehas Titus 
George Field 
W. G. Fisher, Jr. 
W. G. Lamphey 
0. N. Mellen 
T. Stetson 
J. T. Gustin 
J. Datton 
W. A. Holmes 
Josiah Hai'.ley 
K. A. Holmes 
J. McKinley 
J. E. Holmes 
II Weston 

F. H.Failey 
H. Fobes 
Chas. Sanderson 
John R. Lee 

J. II. Collier 
Geo. 11. Gooding 
H. Kunley 
J. S. Dunlap 
Frank C Richards 
J. A. Sampson 
B. F. Hanley 
Henry II. Cook 
J. S. Darling 
Chas. Clark 
Geo. T. Bullard 

G. Ryder, Jr. 
Geo. W. ChurchUl 
Jas. Holbrook 
Elisha Stone 
Jno. Belcher 

J no. D. Cadegan 
H. E. Smith 
J. C. Trow 
A. V. Butman 
Jas. G. Foster 
Henry II. Hyde 
E. M. Smith 
Geo. Robbins 

A. Brown 
Benj. S. Freeman 

B. i\ Nourse 
L. T. Prescott 
J. W. Rolvett 
G. II.Loomis 
n. S. Vinton 
W.T. R. Marvin. 
Jolin Chainberlin 
Geo. A. Batchelder 
Samuel Howard 
T.J. Smith 

Geo. W.Peck 
J. C. Lamb 
Joseph a. .Vorris 
Joseph A. White 
Clinton Viles 
Chas, C Harrington 
Moses Stevens 
E. P. Robinson 
Taylor *: Easton 
George Babson 
Joseph Webb 
Wm. Morgan 
John A. Wright 
Clifford Belmont 
T. E. Chickering 
Geo. H. Cnild 
John B. Frothin'ham 
Tarbell. Dana k. Co. 
John Winslow 
James D. llitchell 
Wm.Bellhedd 
W. C Cristy, Jr. 
J. N. Burleigh 
Geo. F Tarbell 
S. A. Eudicoit 



J. F. Nickerson 
Geo. 11. Horaans 
Thos. K. Cummins 
J. O. Waterman 
Maithew Elhs 
John R. blake 
J. Iiiman Cunningham 

D. F. Benjamin 
W. W. Lat.man 
Wm. Blaney 
Saml. Willousihby 
Beman S. Baylie 
Tho-s. P. Chiiddick 
H. M. Bowman 

J. E Clapp 
Chas. A. Barker 
Geo. E. Wilson 
Geo. N. Dexter 
H. J. Murdock 
J. P. Gilson 
J. W. Wheelwright 
Fred. Odiirne 
John 0. Presbrey 
B ibson k Co. 
Everett 0. Foss 
J. Q. A. Bean 

A. J. Harlow 
Abram Smith 
Wm. H. Hayadorn 
Wm. F. Davis 
Geo. J. Doekray 
F. B. Smith 

J. W. Balch 

B. L. Wales 
J. P. Robinson 
A. Hanscom 
.1. W. B ard 

E. Frothingham, Jr. 
Geo. B. Wellman 
Henry D. Clary 
Jas. L Tucker 
Geo. O. Liiidsey 
W. H. Emery 

Jos. W. Wright 
E. W. Holmes 
J. B. N orris 
Chas Crafts 
T. M. Runlet 
Chas. Dodd 
Wm. Williams 
T. R. Marvin. 
H. A. S. D. Payne 
S. holmes 
J. Q. Kettelle 
Thos. J. Whittemore 
T. Brown Di.\ 
Saml. D. Slocum 
Chas. A. Maine 
Jas. 0. Frost 
0. Seavev 
M Tobey 
Edw. Jones 
Edwin M . Palmer 
llarye.vHowe 

Nathl. Witsor 
Geo. A. Simmons 
J. Trull 

Ezra J. Whitnn 
Darius Young 
M. D. Carli,e 
Jno, H. Pear.<;on 
Geo. Roiierc Carter 
J. K. Porter 
Geo. Odin 
Harri^on Loring 
Isaac Story 
Geo. E. Adams 
John J. Brown 
N. B. Daggett 
AVm. Brown 
Thad.'d Allen 
Isaiah Stedman 
Geo. Ellis 
Chas. B. Darling 
J. W. Warren 
James B. Sar;<ent 
Granville S. Seaverns 
Horace Barnes 
H. K. Deland 
S. N. Neat 
AVm. H. Barnes 
Chas. £ . Grant 



UNION MEETING IN PANEUIL HALL 



Peter A. J. Dunbar 
C. F. Ma.vo 
William Macomber 
Joseph W. Ward 
Georjie Adani3 

C. A. Tucker 
Andrew H. Ward, Jr. 
Lewis Wright 

1). H. Sparhawk 
Z. Parkhurst 
H. A. Furrar 
Jas. L. Loricg 
Josiah Bradlee 
Charles Hammond 
Robert Hooper 
H. G.Gorham 
Wm. A. Hayden 
Augustus T. Perkins 
John M. Bethune 
Theodore Chase 
Wm. B Rice 
W. T. Glidden 
M. H. Jackson 
C W. Dickinson 
Elijah Clark 
J. \V. Follansbee 

D. W. O'Brien 
S. Hathawav 
E Sewell Hrice 
Abner Child 
Sam'l Andrews 
Wm W. Parker 
Edw. L. Parres 
F. Prince 

Jas AV. Davij 
E, Atwood 
N. R. Thayer 
S. P. Lovell 
Kli A Tate 
Nath'I Gale 
A. Brigham 
A. Hanscoiu 

E. K. WhittaUer 
A. 1). Lincoln 
M. Burieck 

A. D. Hyde 
W. P. Hill 
A. J. Lock 
Geo C Davis 
Jas. Barney 
Fred'k Hill 
Chas. W, Pollard 
Geo. A. Savai;e 
Sam'l F. Trail 
Jno. L. Pr'^uty 
E. P. Tucker 
J. L. Stone 
Sam'l C. Lunt 
Geo. Lovejoy 
Sam'l Fabyan 
E. Russell 
Alex. Greg? 
J, N. Burrit 
Dan'l Sanborn 
Warren Rand 
H.N. Crane 
Wm. Grossman 
N. Hathaway 
Jona. Nayson 
Chas. A. Miiick 
Robert Judge 
Andrew Thomas 
John R. Putnam 
Ebenezer Eaton. 
John C. Brown. 
Chas H. Bailey. 
Chas A Belford, 
J R Macdonald, 
Robert McDoni-ell, 
M F Warren 
Lewis Josselyn, 
S Otis Dagsett, 
John Avery, 
R H Dixev, 
Albert Alden. 
Edward Ryan, 
Washington Leach, 
Henry A Davis, 
John Webster, 
M Albert Jacobs, 
Chas Fenner, 
L Tompkins, Jr, 
Edward E Pratt, 
Sam Walker, 
Ephm Nute, 
Daniel Cain, 
Henry Crocker, 
John Wliitcomb, 
C H Kingsley, 
E Parmenter, 
John W Neason, 



Theo. H. Bell 
Joseph A. Bass 
Jos. G. Torroy 
Joseph Stone 
Henry Stnne 
Oiis Wetherliee 
Jos. H Jackson 
AVm. F. H mer 
Henry L Dalton 
Joseph West 
F. In-ersoll 
Lewis G. Pray 
Joseph Smith 
Thomas C. Amory, Jr 
J. A. Burnham 
Ebenezer Johnson 
Geo. Hayward 
Geo. P. Uiham 
L. S. Crasin 
Pelham lionney 
CharlfS Brown 
H. Simmoos 
Saml. N. Dyer 
Thos. Haviland 
H. McSleeper 
Tisdale Drake 
Benj. Beal 

D. Whiion 
J. H. Rivera 
Wm. T. Hart 

E. G. KTiights 
Joseph Mclntire 
John F. Payson, Jr 
Harrison Fay. 
Washinj!tnn Libbey 
Warren Huestis 
Joseph Child, 
Richard B. i^rocker 
W. B. Day 
Joseph }\. Davis 
Joshua Baker 
Eben Man^on 

Jno. VV . Baker 
B. Davis 
Jno. I 'avis 
Rev. D. A. Howes 
Ruins Lane, Jr 
M. Balch 
T.D. HeathGeld 
Isaac Ha-dy, 
Wm. Hinckley 
Henry L. Soaring 
John C. Whit n 
Thomas Snrague 
Isai.hG. Whitjn 
A. Davis Weld, Jr 
E. F. .Southward 
Wm. Cole 
E. S. Conant 
Henry Siders 
Samuel C Loud 
Gustavus v. Hall 
J. W. Whiton 
John P. Whiton 
Charles Siders 
Bartlett Brown 
H. Hallett 
L. D. Lynde 
Alexander Scudder 
Wm. E. Graves 
J. B. Morse 
William M. Hill 
t^amuel Wellman 
J. Percival. 
Robert Swan. 
William W. Swan. 
J F Nelson, 
Frank Knight, 
Jan^es Clark, 
H LBI:.ci<burn, 
Cnas E Wyett, 
Geo E Dyke, 
A J Hus^ey, 
C J F Allen, 
J T Ripley, 
C Wvman, 
A A Waldron, 
James B Weeks, 
Jacob 'I'arr, 
BHTrdd, 
Geo F Emery, 
G Colburn, 
J H Hartshorn 
CD Lincoln, 
Joseph Ripley, 
John Brown, 
David H Torrin, 
E B Liitle, 
Anthony Cline, 
G orge L Thorndike, 
Robt Lewis Davis, 



Joseph D Bridge, 
Wm llardwick, 
S Haugkins, 
Aarc.n Hobart, 
Wm E Foster, 
WmKfriv.in, 
Thos G Easterbrook, 
G -orge Jacot), 
\V Spotford, 
Geo h Bell, 
Thomas Conery, 
Geo A Caldwell, 
Wm H L ach, 
J A Riddle, 
G>-o W Lewis, 
Gearfleld Learned. 
()~goo>l Eaton, 
Ithiimar A Bean, 
Frcdk W Hall, 
M E Cushman, 
Isiac Davis, 
Robert Warner, 
As i T Pratt, 
D Townsend, 
E W Scott, 
M Fernald, 
Fletcher Webster, 
Thomas Huirlies, 
Jas J Maguire, 
Otis H Wiirgin, 
J P Raymond, 
Ricliard J Killion 
W K Hodgkina, 
Y J Seavey, 
S M Clough, 
Chas Jlchlroy, 
John Burridan, 
Jas Oscar Wood, 
L A Hitchcock, 
John TiK.mas, 
W F Emery. 
Eduard Flanders, 
W M Danf rth, 
C W Boulter, 
Stephen White, 
M lurice A Hearn, 
Theodore Mearyon, 
Andrew Sumner, 
R L Flanders, 
Da,nit'l liobbins, 
Chas Hrley, 
L Marshall. 
Chas W Rhodes, 
Samuel G Fessenden, 
Hiram Pierce, 
H K Tracy, 
H F Allen, 
K K Wilson, 
D K Legaller, 
Samuel Mower, 
John U. Ejstburn, 
E Putnam, 
Lewis Clark, 
John Christan, 
J B Read, 
Samuel F Lancey, 
Daniel Langdon, 
Wm Mack. 
Chas C Henry, 
.lohn K Stewart, 
Wm A Berry, 
James McCutcheon, 
s Meliiggin, 
James J ttichardaon, 
Wm Ivnight, 

Geo Leon a-d, 

Tiiom IS Kiler, 

J A Nye, 

J D Rupp, 

Geo Butler, 

James D Burgess, 

Alfred C. Hersey 

Juhn Howe 

Geo. R. Sampson 

Au.u3t.us W. I'errin 

I'lrker Kowle & Sous 

t. W. (Jrisvuld 

Jo!in Curtis 

John Coliamore 

Geo. E. Coliamore 

Neueiniali Jl. Dyer 

William Pope 

Hiram Holt 

Setli G. Brown 

N. D. Whitney 

P. Revere 

W. E. Butts 

Geo. Hurburt 

Jas. F. Hartshorn, Jr. 

E. H. Wade 

Thomas E' Moseley 



B W Fo-ter. 
Roben Keith, 
Fred Tower, 
J W F.ve, 
L Damon, 
C W Mrl„ll;,n, 
Chas I' rli,)hrl( 



William WiL'v, 
Eilward 8 liabbitt, 
J P Hastings, 
Joseph li l-toss. 
Nelson E Nims, 
FC Hanson, 
James K Oiis 
J P Simpson, 
Wm A Ir 'S-jott, 
Geo Hasleit, 
N M Fesse.den, 
H C Whittemore, 
Geo CKu8-ell, 
William Read, .Tr, 
Elmiiiid \Vri;.hc, 
Willar.l Graves, 
Elijali Thaye,', 
WmHIhav.-r, 
Geo W (JmIKu, 
John G Hall, 
Wm PBnwn, 
Perkins (Jlev. land, 
Geo L Brewster, 
James Brounlow, 
D D Uo.lgkius, 
Fred C Bud, 
John Darter, 
Edward Buyle, 
James Buckley, 
James Fiolv, 
Amos Q. imi.jy, 
Eugene Uruwn, 
Henry U Urown, 
Wm Brown Morris, 
PHabbell. 
Joseph Young, 
Thiimas .'-umner, 
Jdsiah A Hanis, 
McKean Uuchaiian, 
Isaac BlanriK.rd, 
Thomas U I'reston, 
Samu -1 F WMudbury, 
HHDottiie,, ^' 

J MissroMii, 
Geo Otis Wi!ey, 
Jos C Walivei-; 
J M D W,.,cester, 
Edward Kiauie, 
J Bradbury. 
L Stickiiey. 
Wm W Peirce, 
Henry K. Oliver, 2d, 
Thomas H Devens, 
HK Thatcher, 
Geo li Lincoln, 
Juhn A Bates, Jr, 
Jacob Fciss, 
Zenas C llo.vland, 
Enoch I Clark, 
JohnMnlleit, 
Arthur Caswell, 
J U KittenlHM.se, 
Wm A l',v,rl;. r. 
I Scliei-nien.nrn, 



Wal 



J n 11 u.li h, 
W Mas,,!.. 
JP\. e;el!, 
E A Bourne. 
David A .\eal, 
Amos A Laurence, 
Gyles P S.oiie 
Naihl S. Os.'.iud 
E. F. Uil.i.ims 
Edward S. Moseley 
\\'.n. S:..iie 
P. K. Hills 
R, Stone 
R. E. .\loely 
M H. Fouler 
Wm. E. Curjier 
E. T. Hir.lv 
J. R Ireland 
C. E. I'lummer 
M. O. Htii 
Geo. O. Munroe 
Dainel P. 1 age 
G. P. Colby 
C. A. Nnleiiii 
Parker U.ji.erta 
Dana D.iiIm; 
David C. Naje» 



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UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 



Charles W. MiicLellan 
Geo. A. MacLellau 
Geo. E. Foule 
(ieo. Jaques 
Henry 1). Kowle 
Klijah Stearns 
Enucli H. dnelling 
Stuffiiri Ctiaddock 
]{. K. IVcker 
.M. Trea.iwell 
Granville M. Clark 
W'm. C.islung 
ilicajah Luut 
D II Ulanchanl, 
Wm. G. Jewell 
Ep' raira Lombard 
Jacob II. Lombard 
G. II. Crichton 
E. B. Foster 
Ti.omas S mpron 
John 1. S|iear 
Enoch Plummer 
Chas, JIaynes 
1). II. SIa?on 
Curtis U, Raymond 
James U..ck 
Erelerick Warren 
E. II. Eldred-e 
Kiehard S. Kogers 
Stephen i;. Wheatland 
John U. Silsbee 
AVm. P. Endicott 
John 13. Fisk 
N. Weston 
Henry F. King 
Eben. Putnam 
Benj. W. Stone 
James S. Kimball 
X. J. Lord 
]!. A. W-sc 
C. F. Williams 
Chas. Mansfield 
Charles Roundy 
Jeremiah Pa^e 
Timothy Bryant 
John Dwyer 
R. Brookhouse 
W. H. Jackson 
Tsaac 0. Barnes 
S. F. Crockett 
E H. Sampson 
J. F. .Sampson 
Thomas J. Lillie 
E.lwm E. Smite 
Francis McLaughlin 
Geo W. Ciark 
M. P. Smith. 
John H. Smith 
Geo. 0. Durgin 
.lone Stone 
Benj. F. Reeves 
G. F. Gwinn 
Edw. Fobes 
Charles A. Rice 
Peter Mitchell 
Geo. C. S. Wentworth 
Chas. K. Darling 
J. n. Hanson 
M. W. Shepard 
Charles A. Ropes 
John L. Shernff 
Nath'l Griffin 
Benjamin tarstow 
Be.M. F. Fabens 
J. Henry Cunningham 
G. A. Puffer 
AVm. W. Eastham 
John Simmons 
Alex. Strong 
Chas. B. Rogers 
Andrew B. Pearson 
J no. Rei er 
A. J. Solis 
liichard Olney 
C. Berkley Johnson 
Sam'l B. Pierce, Jr. 
L. Dana 

Nath-l Hubbard 
.leremiali Martin 
T, Bradl e Winchester 
Henry H. Chandler 
Geo. Hyde 
G. Wiiithrop Coffin 
M. J. Miindell 
Benj. F. Bay ley 
'i'haichor Magoun 
Samuel B. Tucker 
E, R. Scccomb 
Moses CI irk 
Samuel R. Glen 
Solomon Wildes 



B.D.avis, Jr. 
Thomas iluse 
A. H. Fettingell 
Henry Bartlet 
Wm. D. Fojter 
Kathl Greely 
Charles Peabody 
Edward S. Band 
S. A. Smith 
Joel Adams 
Steph n Allen 

E. G. Tucker. 
,lohn Gallagher 
Chas. S. Mason 
John S. Whiting 
W. H. Cuuing 

F. J. Tinkham 
X. W. ColUn 
James Vila 

1. I. Soley 
Jor.n Hill 
Addison Gage 
Henry A. Green 
George Dennie 

F. E. Frothingham 
Charles Smith 
Heury A. Fuller 
L. Beebe 
Sawyer S. Stone 
John A. Baxter 
A. W. Barker 
Aaron D. Hubbard 
John B. Drew 
Charles Henshaw 
Wm. Chase 
Albert Hobavt 
Mores W. Weld 

H. W. Prescott 
Southworth Shaw 
N. F. C, Pratt 
Samuel C. Cobb 
Geo. B. Upton. Jr. 
Francis P. Browne 
John H. B. Lang 
Horace Cunningham 
Edward Ives 
Chas. Heywood 
Timo. Dodd 
0. Marland 
R. Dearborn 
J. R. Bigelow 
Cha-. F. Wilson 
Otis Drury 
George Burbank 
Sumner Flagg 
Richard Cliamberlain 

G. W. Clark 
Thomas P. Voe 
H. W. Gushing 
William Dehon 
Horatio Adams 
J. F. P.iest 
Amasa Coye 
Samuel Kendall 
John H. Dix 

A. J. C._Sowdon 
James rerkins 

E. Seccomb 

R. E. Messinger 

Edward Grace 

Dodge, Baldwin & Co. 

William Whall 

T. C. Webb 

N. D. Kelley,2d 

J. M, Bell 

Benj. F. Cooke 

Jno. L. Hunter 

Edward I. Browne 

Uriel il. Crocker 

F. A. Osborn 
Edw. D. Sohier 
Charles A. Welch 
John J. Clark 
Charles F. Adams 
F. A. Brooks 
Jas. D. Green 
Columbus Tyler 
Geo. Meachara 
Clias. A. Wells 
David 1'. Davis 
William K.-...I 
Sam'l L Cotter 
N. A. D.micU 
Geo. C. Richardson 

B. Binney 
J. W. Gates 
W. G. Stearns 
John Rea.l 
Dan'l Treadwcll 
Francis Bowen 

C. C. Feltou 



Henry Jones 

Charles Edmunds 

Thatcher Magoun, Jr. 

A. H. Coffin 

Jason Farr 

Frank Kent 

Chas T Barry 

P T Taft 

Benj Davenport 

J E Smith 

E N Davis 

lyowell Perry 

W Sawyer 

Henry Turner 

J H Bryant 

Fred Monroe 

Joseph B Hancock 

Alonzo Rand 

C H Vv estphal 

W C Cassell 

Alex Stowell 

Michael Daliny 

Isaac L Fessenden 

O F Raymond 

A A Frost 

James E Greenleaf 

Adolphus J Carter 

John S Robinson 

Timothy W Willard 

Josef h H Berrett 

John W Trull 

Henderson Inches 

John Revere 

Joseph AVhitney 

J R Spalding 

James L Gorbam 

E N Badger 

H L Daggett 

J B Kimball 

A H Batoheller 

Henry De Land 

John Adams 

Francis Dunn 

D A Varney 

Joseph S Perkins 

Isaac W How 

Fred K Piper 

AV L Tower 

Wm H DuBoi 

J H Lester 

John R Mullen 

A B Harvey 

Geo W E Wood 

Geo W Johnson 

Henry Tucker 

S P Cole 

Underwood 

Thos GBucknam 

D Parker 

J P Cross 

H R Sayward 

S F Bulkley 

Abel J Proctor 

D BKing 

FLF^y 

Chas Rice 

Henry Piramons 

Theo A Tliayer 

GBDuBois 

S B Stone 

Wm L Elliot 

John Wallace 

Cliarles Sanders 

William Dchon 

Daniel Draper 



Benjamin Pierce 
Andrew S. Waitt 
Austin K. Jones 
Clias, A. Young 
Walter P Cottle 
Chas T How 
B L Mar>h 
G B Smith 
Jas Houahton 
Saml E Sawyer 
AV A Richards 
John A Willard 
H Penniman 
Andrew J Johnson 
Jno W M Appleton 
J W Cathcart 
Jas Woodman 
Edward S Thomas 
T Mansfield 
Geo S Monroe 
Henry B Greene 
John A Remick 
John Armstrong 
John H Murry 
Fred Murry 
.Jacob Bur 
Jose de Valesquez 
Charles Thompson 
Elw Lawrence 
Timothy T Sawyer 
Edwin F Adams 
X G Child 

Jas K Frothingham 
John Skilton 
Benj G Blanchard 
AV H Davis 
Edw C AVeed 
Geo Billings 
John Hobart 
C D Brooks 
AV P Tower 
E H<ahaway 
AVm E Hunt 
C S Hunt 
H A Orr 
B NAIden 
Isaac N'utten 
Chas Rogers 
Danl P Edson 
L W Clarke 
AVm A Rost 
Join H Foster 
Edward Hobart 
Bradford L Wales 
Barnard Thacher 
James Maguire 
C C MitchtU 
Geo Brvant 
Robt Curtis 
H G Bates 
Jacob A Rogers 
Thomas Royer 
AVilliam Frost 
Hall J How 
Saml AV Bates 
Chauncey Smith 
Henry Blanchard 
John Blanchard 
H G Parker 
I J Cutter 
Hcniy E Ilersey 
Chas L I.inc-lu 
AVairen F Gl ber 
H H Stimpson 
AVnil' Diaper 



At a fcAV minutes past eleven o'clock, Mr. Wil- 
liam Appleton of Boston, Ex-Governor Lincoln 
■ of Worcester, Mr. EdAvard EA'crctt of Boston, 
Mr. Caleb Gushing of NeAvburyport, and a large 
number of the prominent citi^^ens, from all parts 
of the State, entered the Hall, and were received 
Avith immense entluisiasm by the audience. Mr. 
William Appleton called the meeting to order, 
and proposed the foUoAving organization : 



UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 



9 



FOR PRESIDEXT. 

EX-GOVERNOH LEVI LINCOLN-. 



FOR VICE PRESIDEXTS. 



Ex-Governor ^lorton, of 
Ex-Governor Clifford, 
Ex-Governor Gardner, 
F. W. Lincoln, Jr., Mayor, 
Nathan Appleton, 
Dr. Juines Jackson, 
Josiah Bradlee, 
William Sturgis, 
George Ticknor, 
Charles H. Warren, 
Charles W. Cartwright, 
Thomas Aspinwall, 
Frederic Tudor, 
James W. Sever, 
Charles Wells. 
James W. Paige, 
Dr. George llayward, 
George W. Lyman, 
Sidney Bartlett, 
Benjamin ^I. Farley, 
William Dwisht, 
AVilliam P. Mason, 
Peter C. Brooks, 
James M. Beebe, 
Charles B. Goodrich, 
Albert Fearing, 
Charles G. Greene, 
Levi Bartlett, 
George B. Upton, 
E. B. Bigelow, 
Francis Skinner, 
Benjamin F. Hallett, 
J. Thomas Stevenson, 
Osmyn Brewster, 
Silas Pierce, 
John P. Bigelow, 
Nathaniel Thayer, 
Thomas B. Curtis, 
George S. Hillard, 
George T. Curtis, 
John H. Thorndike, 
John P. Healy, 
E. W. Pike, 
Charles Emerson, 
William AV. Greenough, 
Ebenezer Johnson, 
AVilliam Amory, 
E. F. Hodges, 
Benjamin E. Bates, 
J. ^lason Warren, 
Charles Levi Woodbury, 
Peter Harvey, 
Alanson Tucker, Jr., 
David Sears, Jr., 
John II. Eastburn, 
Francis J. Parker, 
Thomas W. Peirce, 
Charles P. Curtis, 
Israel Whitney 
Lewis W. Tappan, 
Joseph M. Wightman, 



Taunton. 

New Bedford. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Bos.ton. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston.. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Bo5ton. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 



George M. Browne, 
Edwin C. Bailey, 
John Hill, 

Adam W. Thaxtcr, Jr., 
Samuel A. Eliot, 
E. D. B"ach, 
George Peabody, 
Willianr G. Bates, 
Edward A. Newton, 
Benjamin Peirce, 
Increase Sumner, 
Nathaniel Siisbee, 
C. C. Felton, 
Edward Dickinson, 
Matthias Ellis, 
George Marston, 
Joseph Hoxie, 
H. W. Bishop, 
Samuel L. Crocker, 
U. P. Wilder, 
Lorenzo Sabine, 
Luther V. Bell, 
!Moses Davenport, 
Thomas Motley, 
E. T. Ensign, 
Benjamin F. Butler, 
Amos A. Lawrence, 
B. K. Hough, 
J. D. Green, 
John S. Sleeper, 
Nathaniel J. Lord, 
Thomas F. Plunkett, 
Caleb Stetson, 
Aaron Hobart, Jr., 
Henry G. Gray, 
Isaac Davis, 
B. B. Forbes, 
hienry W. Clapp, 
S. B. Phinney, 
Nathaniel Wood, 
Charles A. Welsh, 
W. Olney, 
Rejoice Newton, 
Henry Hersey, 

E. P. Tileston, 
Charles Thompson, 
Richard S. Spofford, Jr., 
Charles Kimball, 
Alexander Baxter, 
Robert Sherman, 
Moses Williams, 
Closes Tarr, 

Ansel Phelps, 
Harvey Arnold, 
William E. Parmenter, 

F. W. Lincoln, 
Richard S. Rogers, 
William D. Swan, 
Arthur W. Austin, 
Daniel Fisher, 
Edward S. Moseley, 
Paul Willard, 
Isaac C. Taber, 
Henry H. Childs, 
Go'rham Babson, 
James H. Carlton, 
Jeffrey R. Brackett, 
William JSIixter, 
John Kenrick, 



Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Cambridge. 

Springfield. 

Salem. 

Westfield. 

Pittsfield. 

Cambridge. 

Great Barrington. 

Salem. 

Cambridge. 

Amherst. 

South Carver. 

Barnstable. 

Sandwich. 

Lennox. 

Taunton. 

Dorchester. 

Roxbury. 

Charlestown. 

Newburyport. 

Dedham. 

Sheffield. 

Lowell. 

Brookline. 

Gloucester. 

Cambridge. 

Roxbury. 

Salem. 

Pittsfield 

Braintree. 

East Bridgewater. 

ilarblehead. 

Worcester. 

Milton. 

Greenfield. 

Barnstable. 

Fitchburg. 

AValtham. 

Oxford. 

Worcester. 

Hingbam. 

Dorchester. 

Charlctown. 

Newburyport. 

Ipswich. 

Barnstable. 

Pawtucket. 

West Roxbury. 

Gloucester. 

Springfield. 

North Adams. 

West Cambridge. 

Canton. 

Salem. 

Dorchester. 

AYest Roxbury, 

Ed gar town. 

Newburyport. 

AVest Roxbury. 

New Bedford. 

Pittsfield. 

Gloucester, 

Haverhill. 

Quincy. 

Hardwick. 

Orleans. 



10 



UNION MEETING IN PANEDIL HALL. 



FOR SECUETAHIES 



Henry Colt, 
Thomas E, Chickering, 
Joseph P. Gardner, 
AVilliam C. Endicott, 
AVilliam C. Williamson, 
B. F. Kin-, 



Pittsfield. 

Boston. 

Boston. 

Salem. 

Boston. 

Concord. 



The above list was approved, and Mr. Apple- 
ton then introduced Ex-Governor Levi Lincoln, 
■who Tv-as received Avith immense cheering. He 
said: 

Fellow Citizens, — I am indeed oppressed by the 
cordiaility with which you are pleased to receive 
me, with this earnest welcome. I thank you from 
my heart for the honor which is conferred upon 
me. This, fellow citizens, is a grave occasion 
upon which we have assembled together ; and it 
cannot but be fitting that we seek the Divine 
blessing upon our counsel and upon our delibera- 
tions ; and with your permission I will invite 
Rev. Dr. Blagden to officiate upon this occa- 
sion. 

Praj'ei- of Rev. Dr. BIa;r<len of tlie Old 
Soiitn CliurcU. 

Dr. Blagden then offered prayer as follows : 
Almighty Gjd, our Heavenly Father : We acknowledge thee as 
the God of our Fathers, and our own God, and would bless 
thee fjr the circumstances in which we are permitted to meet 
here tliis morning, as fellow-citizens of a free and happy 
country. We acknowledge thee as the source of those blessings 
we so abundantly enjoy, and would especially bless thee for 
the revelation of thy will to mankind, given to us in the Scrip- 
tures of the Old and of the New Testament. We bless thee 
that wherever this will has been revealed, there man has risen 
under its teachings and its guidance, to the blessings of civil 
and religious liberty. We bless thee that our fathers, the 
fathers of our land drew from this source those teachings and 
those doctrines which have been transmitted unto us, and 
that under the guid 1 nee of fhy word we are enjoying in so 
great a degree those blessings that were enjoyed by them. 
We especially bless thee. Oh Lord, for that Gospel of our 
Lord <nd Saviour, Jesus Christ, which, wherever man is per- 
mitted by his fellow-man to worship thee according to the dic- 
tates of his own conscience, does not attach any polit- 
ical or domestic relations of humane society, but in- 
fuses into all of them those blessed principles which, puri 
fying and elevating all who are under them, promote 
ultimately that glorious liberty wherewith Christ makes free 
And we bless them that this blessed Gospel, without convuls- 
ing human society, tlius imjiroves and thus blesses it ; teach- 
ing men that the powers that be are ordained of God, that, 
they should submit to those poweis ; teaching them that the 
magistrals beareth not the sword in vain, and that we should 
obey his authority. And we praise thee, oh Lord, that in so 
great a degree, under the teachings of this Gospel, and in 
obedience to its precepts, our coniniunily has been a law- 
abiding community ; and that throughout the land we have 
been connected with each other in obedience to the Constitu- 
tion of the country and stand before them to praise 
thee tf)-day for the blessings with which thou 
hast conferred on liberty, and all the mercies of this 
life. Oh L'ird, we would acknowledge thee nonr, and pray for 
thy guidance in the proceedings of this occasion. We would 
invoke thy blessing on the venerable man who comes from 



his retirement to preside over us. We would invoke thy 
blessing on those who shall lead our thoughts and summon 
up our spirits to appreciate the great blessings we enjoy, as 
the citizens of this country, and give counsel, so to e.xircise 
towards all our fellow citizens in whatever circumstances they 
m»y be placed, a Christian and heartfelt patriotism. Bless 
those men who shall direct our thoughts ; make us grateful 
for the services that in other capacities they have ren- 
dered to their country, and grateful that they remain 
unto us, while others have departed, to speak to us 
of our bletsings, and to strive with us to transmit those 
blessings to the latest generation of our descendants. We 
pray for this blessing on the whole country, especially upon 
ths Southern section of it ; on thy servant, the President o 
the Union, and those connected with him in the immediate 
administration of our government, on both houses of Congress 
in their pre^'ent session, on our State officers and the L"gisla- 
lature, on the citizens of this our beloved State, on all who 
are here this morning, may thy blessing descend 
accordingly as we hope in thee. And help us, Oh Lord, with 
one heart, as well as with the lip, to join in the prayer taught 
by our blessed Saviour to his disciples, to be a guide in the 
spirit of the petitions of his followers throughout all time, 
and to say, ''Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy 
name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on eirth as it is 
done in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; forgive us 
our trespasses as we forgive those who trespas;s against us; 
lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil ; for 
thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever 
and ever. Amen. 



Mr. Lincoln now came forward on the platform 
and addressed the i : eeting briefly, as folio ws : 

Speecli of Hon. Leiri Liiiculn. 

Felloio Citizens : I have been bruuglit from long 
retirement, by a deep sense of the importance of 
the occasion, and by the invitation and urgency 
of respected friends, representatives of yourselves, 
whose summons I could not feel at liberty to dis- 
regard. I am with you, to participate in your 
counsels, and to express my sympathy and hearty 
concurrence in the declared patriotic purposes of 
your meeting. ("Applause.) 

It was the noble saying of an eminent citizen, 
a patriot of the Revolution, and one of the foun- 
ders of the Republic, who, through his great ser- 
vices, and the virtues of his life, was elevated to 
the Chief Magistracy of this Commonwealth, and 
to the second office in the nation, that, "he held 
it to be the duty of every citizen, if he has but 
one day to live, to devote that day to the good of 
his country." (Applause.) Thus instructed, it 
Avas not for me, a humble citizen, Avho, through a 
long life, have largely shared in the enjoyment of 
the richest blessings, which only such a country 
can bestow, to refuse one hour, if it may be, to 
its service. 

Fellow citizens, it cannot be denied or dis- 
guised, that we have fallen upon troubled and 
anxious times. The prosperity which we have 
enjoyed, the glory which the nation has achieved, 
the peace, security, and happiness, wliieh hitherto 
have been our lot, are all imperilled by the divi- 
sions and dissensions, the animosities and heart- 



UNION MEETING IN PANEUIL HALL. 11 

burnings, which already exist, and are daily en- of the law with svich a man, in the very State 
gendered amongst us. We have been accustomed, whose peace he had violated, are we to find 
indeed, to hear murmurings of dissatisfaction and cause of offence in the institutions of government 
discontent, of opposition and hostility to the gov- by which others, the quiet and the good, are pro- 
ernment under which we live, and its established tected ? In any other State than Virginia, aye, 
institutions, but these utterances have principally under any government in the civilized world, by 
been confined to small classes of men, of peculiar, like acts, John Brown, or any other man than John 
extreme, and impracticable views, and have pro- Brown, would have incurred a lilie penalty. Let 
duced but little impression. (Applause.) a body of armed men, whether few or many, 

Recent deplorable events in a sister State have strangers here, from a distant community, I care 
greatly intensified and expanded these feelings, not with what motives or for whatever objects, 
and given bitterness and alarming significance to invade the territory of Massachusetts ; seize the 
their expression; and now, we hear from large magazine of arms, for distribution among the 
assemblies and conventions, attended by men of ignorant and the dissolute ; capture and make 
respectable character, impassioned and threaten- prisoners peaceable citizens, shoot down those 
ing resolutions, denunciatory alike of the Union whom the law should oppose to their violence, 
and the Constitution, of the government and its and thus carry fear and dismay to the hearts 
administration under the compromises, upon of the people, let this be done, and I will not say 
which alone the government could have been that the proceedings would not be more formal 
established. Even a Senator of the State, [Mr. and the trial less flurried, but this I know, that 
Parker of Worcester], has found it necessary, or the law of Massachusetts would not fail to ad- 
thought it fit, to offer an excuse for his oath of judge the offenders to a felon's doom. Let it be 
allegiance to the Constitution, in the desire of borne m mind that John Brown was at the time 
pla^e under that very Constitution. (Cheers.) the citizen of a free State, his family and property 
Can it have been well considered, how little the under the protection of a free State, while him- 
events in Virginia furnish sufficient, or any, self, Avith all his kin, were strangers to the popu- 
occasion for such proceeding ? Of the motives of lation and the soil of the blave State of Vir- 
John Brown, or of the manly traits in his charac- ginia. 

ter, I have nothing to say here. I leave them Fellow-citizens, I trust I need not say, in this 
with those who can find any thing to eulogize in presence, that I am no advocate for 02)pression in 
the conduct of a man whose life has been justly any of its forms. I am a friend to freedom, as 
forfeited to offended law (immense cheering) by are you all. I Avould restrict slavery to its nar- 
atrocious criminalities. (Clieers.) If John Brown rowest legalized limits, and do whatever was in 
was a sane man, it cannot be denied that lie was my power to remove it from the whole land, 
guilty of a great crime. Tliose who claim for whenever, and as soon, as in the goodness and 
him a martyr's fame, will not thank any one for mercy of God, it could be done with wisdom and 
offering in hid excuse a plea of insanity. A mar- safety. We are all lovers of liberty. There is 
tyr's crown is never won by an insane mind, not a single pro-slavery man, in the opprobrious 
(Applause.) sense of that term, in all this vast assembly ; no, 

No, fellow citizens, John Brown Avas not a not one. 
madman, except as all men are mad when they I am not insensible that irritating and opprobi- 
sin against reason. He knew well what he was ous language and defiant resolves are not confin- 
about. He did not reckon without his host. He ed to any section of our common country. The 
lookedfor success and a conqueror's triumph. The South has uttered many undeserved reproaches, 
last hour of his life furnishes an explanation of and committed many grievous and unjust aggres- 
the seeming mystery of his extraordinary rash- sions upon the feelings and rights of the free 
ness. In the parting interview with his comrade States. There have been mutual criminations 
(Cook) he reproached him with dec ption and and recriminations, until mutual respect and con- 
treachery, in falsely representing to him that the fidence between the different sections have come 
slaves of Virginia Avere ripe for insurrection, and to be greatly impaired. Hence the danger of en- 
would rush to his standard. And this was the tire alienation and enmity, to the certain subver- 
encouragement to the work upon which he enter- sion of our civil institutions. 
ed — anassurance of sup])ort and the expectation oj The times eminently demand calmness and con- 
success. sideration, a better spirit, and mutual concilia- 

On this reliance he invaded with a hostile force tion. We have yet a country both to serve and 
the peaceful village of Harper's Ferry, seized to love, — a great, a glorious, a prosperous, and, 
upon the public arsenal, from which to distribute despite of our political strifes and contentions, 
deadly Aveapons to an ignorant, excited, servile a still happy countrj\ There is not an evil Avhich 
population, stimulated, as it might be, to fury, by exists, under the Union, Avhich may not be better 
a sense of oppression and the promise of emiinci- dealt Avith in the Union, than out of it. Division 
pation ; — Avith armed men, in the Avatches of the can remove no cause of difference, disunion re- 
night, forced an entrance into private dAvellings, store no harmony to intercourse. We are here to 
and bore from their very beds peaceful and re- rebuke the spirit of dissension and dis.^ord — here 
spectable citizens as prisoners of Avar, to his in this temple of liberty to rencAV our voavs ; and 
military fortress; — shot doAvn those Avho Avhatever else others, here or elscAvhere, may say 
opposed him, and caused consternation or may do, to declare for ourselves, that, come 
and unspeakable distress to the hearts weal or come avoc, avc Avill defend the Constitu- 
of the timid and defenceless, throughout a tion, and stand by the Union. [Prolonged Cheer- 
great community. And for the dealings ing."' 



12 



UNION MEETING IN FANEDIL HALL. 



THE KESOLVTIOXS. 



George Lrxr, Esq., rose to read the llcsolu- 
tions. lie said, 



Mr. Chairmmi : The Executive Committee at 
■n-hose call this meeting is assciubU'd have seen 
fit to devolve upon me the honor of presenting to 
your acceptance the resolutions which I hold in 
my hand. I shall barely read the resolutions and 
then leave you to listen to the noble sentiments 
■which you have a right to expect, and which I 
rejoice to believe will be so grateful to this vast 
and patriotic assembly. 

Assembled at Faneuil Hall in the city of Boston, on 
this 8Ui day of December, 1859, in consideration of 
recent events which have so disturbed the public 
mind, and which have given just occasion for the 
expression of patriotic sentiments becoming our 
principles and obligations : Be it 

Resolved, That as citizens of the Commonw^alfh of 
Mass.-ichusetts, forgetting none of the common trials, 
sacrifices, and efforts by which our National Indepen- 
dence was secured, and our National Compact estab- 
lished, we desire to seize this opportunity to renew 
and to reassert the feelings and duties which bind us to 
our sister States and to iTie Federal Union. 

Resolved, 'ihut the people of Massachusetts, how- 
ever many of Ihcm may have been ndsled into extrav- 
agant oi)inions and ac*ion, are nevertheless well dis- 
posed in general to obey the laws, to maintain order 
and good government, to respect mutual rights and 
oblii^atiuns, and to disapprove whatever influences 
lead in a contrary direction; and we regret that the 
main body of our citizens, too much through the 
neglect of their political duties, have been often falsely 
exhibited in the eyes of the nation, by those whose 
councils and conduct do not command the general ap- 
probation. 

Resolved, That we look with indignation and abhor- 
rence upon the recent armed invasion of the Common- 
wealth of Virginia ; that however narrow, or however 
comprehensive was the clandestine and iniquitous 
scheme, in its instruments or its execution, it was an 
undisguised assault upon the peace and welfare of the 
whole country ; that we deeply sympathise with the 
people of "Virginia, in the trying scenes which they 
have been called to pass through; and proffer them 
and their civil authorities, and those ef the Federal 
Government our unfailing countenance and support 
in the maintenance of the laws of the land and the 
public peace. 

Resolved, That generous love of country is the no- 
blest passion which can animate the soul of a citizen 
in a free State; and that the opposite sentiment, so 
zealou ly propagated of late by the fanatical minis- 
ters of a false philanthropy, "is fatal to the public 
peace, honor and welfare, and deserves the severest 
reprobation of every true American. 

Resolved, That the advantages and privileges 
through the blessing of Divine Providence, enjoyed 
by the people of this country, are unparalleled in the 
history of nations ; that we can be deprived of them 
only by our own want of a due sense of their value; 
i.nd that intestine dissension, so often the bane of an- 
cient and modern States, can alone expose us to the 
danger of losing possessions so inestiTiiable. 

Resolvid, That the uuchauKcable union of these 
Slates is iiidisprnsable to the prosperity and Klory of 
each and of all ; and even to our continued existence 



as a civilized and enlightened nation; and, that in 
lengue with our patriotic brethren throughout the 
Union, we solemnly pledge ourselves to uphold it with 
" our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." 

Ri'soh-ed, That we profoundly honor and cherish 
the Constitution of the United States, for the con- 
summate wisdom and liberal'ty of its just and salu- 
tary privisions; that we are resolved to maintain 
that great charter of our liberties and safety by all 
honorable means, and faithfully and unreservedly to 
carry out all its obligations and requirements. 

Resolved, That it is the bounden and highest duty 
fif all the citizens of this country to discountenance 
whatever may tend to produce alienation of feeling, or 
division of sentiment or interest, between the several 
States, and zealously to cultivate and promote every 
influence likely to advance and maintain the most 
amicable relations among the whole people of the 
United States. 

Resolved, That we hereby denounce, as worthy of 
the most unqualified condemnation, every demonstra- 
tion and every expression of sentiment, whether pub- 
lic or private, tending to extenuate, or apologise for 
the conduct or characters of the criminal actors in the 
late outrage in Virginia, or to make them scm other 
than the guilty agents and victims of a fanatical and 
fatal delusion ; and we hold those, in whatever station 
and of whatever profession, whose opinions and ex- 
hortations, heretofore uttered, have so manifestly 
tended to this great wrong and crime, as fully respon- 
sible for it and all its evil consequences, before God 
and the c<uintrv. 

Resolved, That with the deepest emotions of vene- 
ration for the sagacity and patriotic spirit which 
prompted the sentiments, we reiterate the language 
of the father of his country, in his farewell address to 
the people of the United States, that " It is of infinite 
moment that we should properly estimate the immense 
value of o»r national union to our collective and indi- 
vidual hai)piness ; that ive should cherish a cordial, 
habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustom- 
in n ourselves to think and speak of it r.s of the palladi- 
tim of our political safety and prosperity ; watcning 
for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discounte- 
nancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that 
it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly 
frowning upon the first dawninij of every attempt to 
alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or 
to enf-eble'the sacred lies which now link together 
the various parts." 

These resolutions, as they were severally read 
and at their conclusion, were received with the 
most enthusiastic and unanimous applause. 



The Chairman now said : 

Fellow Citizens : In illustration and support 
of the resolutions you have heard, so eloquent and 
so patriotic, it is my happiness to present to you 
one of the.'most eloquent and patriotic of your fel- 
low citizens, whose whole life has been devoted to 
the service of his country, to the promotion of its 
security, jirosperity and honor. 1 present to you 
the lloii. Edward Everett. (Prolonged Applause.) 



The Hon. Edward Evkrett, who was hailed 
with every demonstration of respect and enthusi- 
asm, spoke as follows : 



UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 



13 



Spcecli of Hon. Kd^varil Kverctt. 

'Jl/r. Chairman and Felloio-Citizans : In rising to 
address you, on this important occasion, indul,i,'e 
me in a few words of personal explanation. I 
did not suppose that anything could occur wliich 
"would make me think it my duty to appear again 
on this platform, on any occasion of a political 
character, and had this meeting been of a party 
nature or designed to promote any party purpos- 
es, I should not have been here. When compell- 
ed by the prostration of my health five years ago, 
to resign the distinguished place which I then 
filled in the public service, it was with no expec- 
tation, no wish, and no intention of ever again 
mingling in the scenes of public life. I have ac- 
cordingly, with the partial restoration of my 
health, abstained from all participation in politi- 
cal action of any kind ; partly because I have 
found a more congenial, and, as I venture to think, 
a more useful occupation in seeking to rally the 
affections of my countrymen North and South, 
to that great name and precious memory which is 
left almost alone of all the numerous kindly asso- 
ciations, which once bound it^ different sections 
of the country together ; and diso because, be- 
tween the extremes of opinion that have long 
distracted and now threaten to convulse the 
country, I find no middle ground of practical 
usefulness, on Avhich a friend of moderate coun- 
sels can stand. I think I do a little good, — I try 
to, — in my waning years, in augmenting the funds 
of the charitable institutions, — commemorating 
from time to time the honored dead and the great 
events of past days, and chiefly in my humble ef- 
forts to rescue from desecration and the vicissi- 
tudes of private property the home and the grave 
of AVashington. These, sir, seem to me to be in- 
nocent and appropriate occupations for the de- 
cline of life. I am more than contented with 
the favor with which these my humble labors are 
regarded by the great majority of my country- 
men ; and knowing by experience how unsatisfy- 
ing in the enjoyment are the brightest prizes of 
political ambition, I gladly resign the pursuit of 
them to younger men. 

Sir, the North and the South, including the 
!^orthwest and Southwest, have become fiercely, 
bitterly arrayed against each other. There is no 
place left in public life for those who love them 
both. The war of words — of the press, of the 
platform, of the State Legislatures, and, must I 
add, the pulpit ? — has been pushed to a point of 
exasperation, which, on the slightest untoward 
accident, may rush to the bloody arbitrament of 
the sword. The great ancient master of political 
science (Aristotle) tells us, that though revolu- 
tions do not take place for small causes, they do 
from small causes. He means, sir, that when the 
minds of the community have become hopelessly 
embittered and exasperated by long continued 
irritation, the slightest occurrence will bring on 
a convulsion. 

In lact, it seems to me, that we have reached a 
state of things which requires all good men and 
good patriots to forego for a time mere party 
projects and calculations, and to abandon all or- 
dinary political issues ; which calls in a word 
upon all who love the country and cherish the 
Union, and desire the continuance of those bles- 



sings Avhich we have till lately enjoyed under the 
Constitution transmitted to us by our Fathers, — 
and which I regard as the noblest work of politi- 
cal wis lorn ever achieved, — and to meet as one man 
and take counsel for its preservation. It is this 
feeling that has brought me here to-day. 

It will probably be said, sir, that those who 
entertain vieAvs lii;e these exaggerate the gravity 
of the crisis. I wish I could think so. But I 
fear it is not we who exaggerate, but those who 
differ from us, that greatly — and soon, I fear it 
will be, fatally — underrate the ominous signs of the 
times. I fear, sir, that they are greatly misled by 
the one-sided views presented by the party press, 
and those who rely upon the party press exclusive- 
ly for their impressions, and that they are d mger- 
ously ignorant of the state of opinion and feeling 
in the other great section of the country. I great- 
ly fear that the mass of the connnuuity in this 
quarter, long accustomed to treat all alarm for 
the stability of the Union as groundless, and all 
professed anxiety for its preservation as insincere, 
or, if sincere, the result of nervous timidity, have 
unfitted themselves to measure the extent and the 
urgency of the existing danger. It is my own 
deliberate conviction, formed from some opportu- 
nities of personal observation, and from friendly 
correspondence with other parts of the coun- 
try, (though I carry on none of a political 
nature), that we are on the very verge of a 
convulsion, which will shake the Union to its 
foundation ; and that a few more steps forward, 
in the direction in which affairs have moved for a 
few years past, will bring us to the catastrophe. 

I have heard it urged on former occasions of 
public alarm, that it must be groundless, because 
business goes on as usual, — and the theatres are 
open, and stocks keep up. Sir, these appearances 
may all be delusive. The great social machine 
moves with a momentum, that cannot be suddenly 
stopped. The ordinary operations of business 
went on in France, in the revolution of 1789, till 
the annihilation of the circulating medium put a 
stop to everything that required its use. The 
theatres and all the other places of public amuse- 
ment were crowded to madness in the reign of 
terror. The French stocks never stood better 
than they did in Paris on the 21st of February, 
1848. On the 24th of that month Louis Philippe 
was flying in disguise from his capital ; the Tuile- 
ries were sacked, and the oldest monarchy in 
Europe had ceased to exist. 

I hold it to be time, then. Sir, as I have said, for 
good men and good patriots, casting aside all mere 
party considerations, and postponing at least all 
ordinary political issues, to pause; to look steadily 
in the face the condition of things to which we are 
pproaching ; and to ask their own consciences, 
whether they can do nothing or say nothing to 
avert the crisis, and bring about a happier and 
a better state of things. I do not ask them to 
search the past for topics of reproach or recrimi- 
nation on men or parties. We have had enough 
of that, and it has contributed materially to bring 
about our present perilous condition. In all 
countries where speech and the press are free, 
especially those countries which by controlling 
natural causes fall into two great sections, each 
possessing independent local legislatures and cen- 
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the lapse of time unavoidably be action and re- sidcration, I suspect it will be agreed that any 
action of word and deed. Violence of speech or of other conununity in the country, similarly situa- 
act, on the one side, will unavoidably produce vio- ted, would have" been affected "in the same way. 
lence of speech and act on the otlier. Each new A contiict of such an unprecedented character, in 
grievance is alternately cause and effect — and if, which twelve or fourteen persons on the two sides 
before resorting to healing counsels, we are de- were shot down, in the course of a few hours, ap- 
termined to run over the dreary catalogue, to see pears to me an event at which levity ought to 
■who was earliest or who has been most to blame, stand rebuked, and a solemn chill to fall upon 
we engage in a controvorsy in which there is no every right thinking man. 

arbiter, and of which there can be no solution. I fear, Sir, from the tone of some the public 

But without reviving the angry or sorrowful journals, that we have not made this case our 
memories of the past, let me, in all friendliness, own. Suppose a party of desperate misguided 
ask the question, what has either section to gain men, under a resolved and fearless leader, had 
by a disM)lution of the Union, with reference to been organised in Virginia, to come and estab- 
that terrible question which threatens to de- lish themselves by stealth in Springfield in this 
stroy it. I ask patriotic men in both sections to State, intending there, after possessing themselves 
run over in their minds the causes of comjilaint at the vmguarded hour of midnight of the National 
which they have, or think they have, in the exist- Armory, to take advantage of some local cause of 
ing state of things, and then ask themselves dis- disaffection, say the feud between Protestants and 
passionately whether anything is to be gained. Catholics, (which led to a very deplorable occur- 
anything to be hoped, by pushing the present rence in thi 3 vicinity a few years ago,) to stir up a 
alienation to that fatal bourne, from which, as social revolution; that pikes and rities to arm twcn- 
from death, there is no return ? Will the South ty-five hundred men had been procured by funds 
gain any greater stability for her social system, or raised by extensive subscriptions throughout the 
any larger entrance into the vacant public territo- South, — that at the dead of a Sunday night, the 
ries ? Will the North have effected any one work of destruction had begun, by shooting down 
object, which by men of any shade of opinion, an unarmed man, who had refused to join the in- 
extreme or moderate, is deemed desirable ; on the vading force ; that citizens of thefirststanding were 
contrary, will not every evil she desires to reme- seized and imprisoned, — three or four others 
dy be confirmed and aggravated ? If this view of killed : and when on the entire failure of the con- 
the subject be correct Avhat can be more unwise — spiracy, its leader had been tried, — ably defended 
what more suicidal, than to allow these deplora- by counsel from his own part of the country, con- 
ble dissensions to result in a Revolution, which victed and executed, that throughout Virginia 
will leave the two great sections of the country in a which sent him forth on his fatal errand, and the 
worse condition than it finds them, with reference South generally, funeral bells should be tolled, 
to the very objects for which they allow them- meetings of sympathy held, as at the death of 
selves to be impelled to the dreadful consumma- some great public benefactor, and the person who 
tion ? had plotted to put a pike or a rifle in the hands of 

But I shall be told perhaps that all this is ima- twenty- five hundred men, to be used against their 
ginary ; that the alarm at the South is factitious fellows, inhabitants of the same town, inmates of 
or rather a groundless panic, for which there is the same houses ; with an ulterior intention and 
no substantial cause, — fit subject for ridicule purpose of wrapping the whole community in a 
rather than serious anxiety. But I see no signs civil war of the deadliest and bloodiest type in 
of panic in Virginia, except for a few hours at which a man's foes should be those of his own 
Harper's Ferry, where in the confusion of the first household ; suppose, I say, that the person who 
surprise, and in profound ignorance of the extent planned and plotted this, and with his own hand 
of the danger, the community was for a short time or that of his associates acting by his command, 
paralyzed. I am not sure that a town of four or had taken the lives of severalfellow beings, sliould 
five hundred families in this region, invaded at be extolled, canonized, placed on a level with 
midnight by a resolute band of twenty men, en- the great heroes of humanity, nay, assimilated to 
tering the houses of influential citizens, and hur- the Savior of mankind ; and all this not the ef- 
rj'ing them from their beds to a stronghold pre- feet of a solitary individual impulse, but the ripe 
viously occupied, and there holding them as host- fruit of a systematic agitation pursued in the 
ages — I am not sure, sir, that an equal panic would South, unrebuked, for years! What, Sir, should 
not be created till the extent of the danger was we feel, think, say under such a state of things ? 
measured. Besides, sir, if the panic had been Should we Aveigh every phrase of indignant re- 
much more extensive than it was, the panics of monstrance with critical accuracy, and divide our 
great and brave communities are no trifles. Burke murmurs Avith nice discrimination among those 
said he could not frame an indictment against a Avhom Ave might believe, hoAvcAX^r unjustly, to be 
whole people ; it seems to me equally in bad taste directly or indirectly concerned in the murderous 
at least to try to point a sneer at a S"tate like Vir- aggression ? 

ginia. The French are reputed a gallant and Mr. Chairman, those Avho look upon the exist- 
Avarlike people ; but the letters from the late scat ing excitement at the South as factitious or ex- 
of Avar tell us, tliat even after the great victory of travagant, have, I fear, formed a very inadequate 
Solferino, a handful of Austrians, straggling into idea of the nature of such an attempt as that which 
a village, put a corps of tlie French army — thou- Avas made at Harper's Ferry Avas intended to be, 
sands strong — to flight. A hundred and fifty men and Avould haA'e been had it proAX'd successful, 
overturned the French monarchy, on the occasion It is to Avant of reflection on this point that Ave 
to Avhich I have already alluded, in 1818. AVhen must ascribe the fact, that any civili-.ed nmn in 
the circumstances of the case arc taken into con- his right mind, and still more any man of intelli- 



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gence and moral discernment, in other respects, 
can be found to approve and sympathize with it. 
I am sure if such persons Avill bring home to their 
minds, in any distinct conception, the real nature 
of the undertaking, they would be themselves 
amazed that they had ever given it their sympa- 
thy. It appears from his own statements and those 
of his deluded associates, of his biographer, and 
of his wretched wife, that the unhappy man who 
has just paid the forfeit of his life luid for years 
meditated a general insurrection in the Southern 
States ; that he thought the time had now come 
to effect it ; that the slaves were ready to rise and 
the non-slaveholding whites to join them; and 
both united were prepared to form a new Common- 
wealth, of Avhich the constitution was organized 
and the officers chosen. With this wild, but 
thoroughly matured plan, he provides weapons 
for those on whose rising he calculated at Har- 
per's Ferry ; he seizes the national arsenal, where 
there was a supply of arms for a hundred thousand 
men ; and he intended, if unable to maintain him- 
self at once in the open country, to retreat to the 
mountains, and from their fastnesses, harass, 
paralyze, and at length revolutionize the South. 
To talk of the pikes and rifles not being intended 
for offensive purposes, is simply absurd. The 
first act almost of the party was to shoot down a 
free colored man, whom they were attempting to 
impress, and who fled from them. One might as 
well say that the rifled ordnance of Louis Na- 
poleon was intended only for self-defence, not to 
be used unless the Austrians should undertake 
to arrest his march. 

No, sir, it was an attempt to do on a vast scale 
what was done in St. Domingo in 1791, where 
the colored population was about equal to that of 
Virginia ; and if any one would form a distinct 
idea what such an operation is, let him see it — not 
as a matter of vague conception — a crude project — 
in the mind of a heated fanatic, but as it stands in 
the sober pages of history, which record the revolt 
in that Island ; the midnight burnings, the whole- 
sale massacres, the merciless tortures, the abgmi- 
nations not to be named by Christian lips in the 
hearing of Christian ears, — some of which, too 
unutterably atrocious for the English language, 
are of necessity veiled in the obscurity of the 
Latin tongue. Allow me to read you a few sen- 
tences which can be read from the historian of 
these events : 

"In the town itself, the general belief for some 
time was, that the revolt was by no means an exten- 
sive one, but a sudden and partial insurrection only. 
The largest sugar plantation on the plain was that of 
Mons. Gallifet, situated about ei^ht miles from the 
town, the negroes belonging to which had always 
been treated with such kindness and liberality and 
possessed so many advantages, that it became a pro- 
verbial expression among the lower white people, in 
speaking of any man's good fortune, to say, il est 
he.ureux conime un negre de Ga/^/Yei! (he is as h ppy 
as one of M. Gallifet's negroes). iSl. OJeluc, an at- 
torney, or agent, for this plantation, was a member of 
the General Assembly, and being fully persuaded that 
the negroes belonging to it would remain firm in their 
obedience, determined to repair thither to encourage 
them in opposing the insurgents ; to which end lie 
desired the assistance of a few soldiers from the 
town guard, which was granted him. He proceeded 
accordingly, but on approaching the estate, to his sur- 
prise and grief, he found all the negroes in arms on 



the side of the rebels, and (horrid to tell) flicir stand- 
ard tons the bod;/ of a white infant, vhich tliry had 
recently impiiL-d on a statu-! Mr. Oilcluc li.id ad- 
vanced too far to retreat undiscovered, and both he 
atid a friend who had accompanied him, with most of 
the soldiers, were killed without mercy. Two or 
three only of the patrol escaoed by flight, and con- 
veyed the dreadful tidings to the inhabitants of the 
town. 

By this time, all or most of the white persons who 
had been found on the several plantations, being mas- 
sa red or forced to seek their safety in flight, the 
ruffians exchanged the sword for the torch. The 
buildings and cane-lields were everywhere set on fire ; 
and the conflagrations, which were visible from the 
town, in a thousand different quarters, furnished a 
prospect more shocking, and reflections more dis- 
m.-il, than fancy can paint, or the powers of man de- 
scribe." 

Such, Sir, as a matter of history, is a servile 
insurrection. N.w let us cast a glance at the 
state of things in the Southern States, co-mem- 
bers as they are with us in this great republican 
confederacy. Let us consider over what sort of 
a population it is, that some persons among us 
think it not only right and commendable, but in 
the highest degree heroic, saint-like, god-like, to 
extend the awful calamitj% which turned St. 
Domingo into a heap of bloody ashes in 1791. 
There^ are between three and four millions of the 
colored race scattered through the Southern and 
Southwesterri States, in small groups, in cities, 
towns, villages, and in larger bodies on isolated 
plantations ; in the house, the factory, and the 
field ; minpled together with the dominant race 
in the various pursuits of life ; the latter amount- 
ing in the aggregate to eight or nine millions, if I 
rightly recollect the numbers. Upon this com- 
munity, thus composed, it was the design of 
Erown to let loose the hell-hounds of a servile 
insurrection, and to bring on a struggle which for 
magnitude, atrocity, and horror, would have 
stood alone in the history of the world. And 
these eight or nine millions, against whom this 
frightful war was levied, are our fellow-citizens, 
entitled with us to the protection of that com- 
pact of government, which recognizes their rela- 
tion to the colored race, — a compact which every 
sworn officer of the Union or of the States is 
bound by his oath to support ! Among them, 
Sir, is a fair proportion of men and women of 
education and culture, — of moral and religious 
lives and characters, — virtuous fathers, mothers, 
sons, and daughters, persons Avho would adorn 
any station of society, in any country, — men who 
read the same Bible that we do, and in the name 
of the same Master, kneel at the throne of the 
same God, — forming a class of men from which 
have gone forth some of the greatest and purest 
characters which adorn our history, — Washing- 
ton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, ^larshall. These 
are the men, the women, for whose bosoms pikes 
and rifles are manufactured in New England, to 
be placed in the hands of an ignorant subject 
race, supposed, must wrongfully, as recent events 
have shown, to be waitingonly for an opportunity 
to use them ! 

Sir, I have on three or four different occasions 
in early lif.- and more recently, visited all the 
Southern and Southwestern States, with the ex- 
ception of Arkansas and Alabama. I have enjoyed 
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have had the privilege before cro-wdcd and favor- ever undertaken to sketch out the details of a 
ing audiences, to hold up t)ie character of the plan for effecting the change at once, by any 
Father of his Country, and to inculcate the bles- legislative measure that could be adopted ? 'Con- 
sings of the Union, in the same precise terms in sider only, I pray you, that it would be to ask the 
■which I have done it here at home, and in the South to give up one thousand trillions of prop- 
other portions of the land. I have been admitted erty, which she holds by a title satisfactory to 
to the contidence of the domestic circle, and I herself, as the first step. Then estimate the cost 
have seen there touching manifestations of the of an adequate outfit for the self support of the 
kindest feelings, by which that circle, in all its emancipated millions ; then reflect on the de- 
members, high and low, master and servant, can rangement of the entire industrial system of the 
be bound together ; and when I contemplate the South, and all the branches of commerce and 
horrors that would have ensued had the tragedy manufactures that depend on its great staples ; 
on which the curtain rose at Harper's Ferry been then the necessity of conferring equal political 
acted out, through all its scenes of fire and sword, privileges on the emancipated race, who beingfree 
of lust and murder, of rapine and desolation, to would be content with nothing less, if anything 
the final catastrophe, I am filled with emotions to less were consistent with our political system ; 
"which no words can do justice. There could of then the consequent organization of two great po- 
course be but one result, and that well deserving litical parties on the basis of color, and the eter- 
the thoughtful meditation of those.ifanysuch there nal feud which woidd rage between them; and 
be, who think that the welfare of the colored race finally the overflow into the free States of a vast 
could by any possibility be promoted by the sue- multitude of needy and helpless emigrants, who, 
cess of such a movement, and who are willing to being excluded from many of them (;ind among 
purchase that result by so costly a sacrifice. The others from Kansas,) would prove doubly bur- 
colored population of St. Domingo amounted to densomc, where they are admitted. Should we, 
but little short of a half a million, while the sir, with all our sympathy for the colored 
whites amounted to only thirty thousand. The race (and I do sincerely sympathize with 
white population of the Southern States alone, in them, and to all whom chance throws in my 
the aggregate outnumbers the colored race in the way, I have through life extended all the 
ratio of two to one; in the Union at large in the relief and assistance in my power), give 
ratio of seven to one ; and if (which Heaven avert) a very cordial reception to two or three hundred 
they should be brought into conflict, it could end thousand destitute emancipated slaves > Does 
only in the extermination of the latter after scenes not every candid man see, that every one of these 
of woe, for which language is too faint; and for steps presents diiHculties of the most formidable 
which the liveliest fancy has no adequate images character, — difficulties for which, as far as I 
of horror. know, no man and no party has proposed a solu- 

Such being the case, some one may ask why tion? And is it, sir, for the attainment of objects 
does not the South fortify herself against the so manifestly impracticable, pursued, too, by the 
possible occurrence of sujh a catastrophe, by bloody pathways of treason and murder, that we 
doing away with the one great source from which w^ill allow the stupendous evil which now threat- 
alone it can spring ? This is a question easily ens us, to come uj^on the country ? Shall we 
asked, and I am not aware tliat it is our duty at jjermit this curiously compacted body politic, the 
the North to answer it ; but it may be observed nicest adjustment of human wisdom, to go to 
that great and radical changes in the framework pieces ? Will we blast this beautiful symmetric 
of Society, involving the relations of twelve mil- form^; paralyze this powerful arm of public 
lions of men, will not wait on the bidding of an strength ; smite with imbecility tliis great Na- 
impatient philanthropy. They can only be brought tional Intellect ? Where, sir, O whore, will be 
about in the lapse of time, by the steady opera- the flag of the United States ! Where our rap- 
tion of physical, economical, and moral causes, idly increasing influence in the family of nations ! 
Have those, who rebuke the South for the con- Already they are rejoicing in our divisions. The 
tinuance of slavery, consideied that neither the last foreign journal which I have read, in com- 
present generation nor the preceding one is re- menting upon tne event at Harper's Ferry, dwells 
sponsible for its existence? The African slave upon it as something that "will compel us to 
trade was prohibited by Act of Congress fifty-one keep the peace Avith the powers of Europe," and 
years ago, and many years earlier by the separate that means to take the law from thenr in our in- 
Southtrn Stales. The entire colored population, ternational relations. 

with the exception, perhaps, of a few hundreds I meant to have spoken of the wreck of that 
surreptitiously introduced, is native to the soil, magnificent and mutually beneficial commercial 
Their ancestors were conveyed from Africa in the intercourse which now exists between the produc- 
ships of Old England and New England. They ing and manufacturing States ; — of the hostile 
now numlier between three and four millions, tariffs in time of peace and the habitually recur- 
Has any person, of any party or opinion, pro- ring border wars, by which it will be annihilated, 
posed, in sober earnest, a practical method of I meant to have said a word of the Navy of the 
wholesale emancipation i* I believe most persons, United States ; and the rich inheritance of its 
in all i)arts of the country, are of opinion, that common glories. Shall Ave give up this ? The 
free labor is steadily gaining ground. It would memory of our Fathers — of those happy daj's 
in my judgment have already prevailed in the two when the men of the North and South stood to- 
northern tiers of the slavchulding States, had its gether for the country, on hard fought fields : 
advances not been unhappily retarded by the irri- whrn the South sent her Washington to Massa- 
tating agitations of the day. But has any person, chusetts, and New England sent her Greene to 
■whose opinion is entitled to the slightest respect, Carolina — is all this forgotten ? "Is all the coun- 



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sel that -we two have shared ;" all the joint labors 
to found this n;rcat Ropublic; — i^ this "all forgot ?" 
and will we permit this last great experiment of 
Confederate llcpublicanism, to become a proverb 
and a bye-word to the Nations ? No. fellow-cit- 
izens, no, a thousand times no ! This glorious 
Union sliall not perish ! Precious Ic^'acy of our 
Fathers, it shall go down, honored and cherished 
to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy 
its privileges as we have done, and if we leave 
them poor in all besides, we will transmit to 
them the boundless wealth of its blessings ! 



Speech of Gen. Caleb Cusliing. 

President I,incoln said : 

Fellow Citizens, — Another of our most eminent 
and distinguished fellow citizens who has entitled 
himself to your confidence and honor, as well as 
to that of the whole country, by great services 
rendered in different departments of the State 
and of the Union, will favor you with his thoughts 
and counsels upon the momentous subject which 
occupies your attention. I have the pleasure of 
inviting to the platform Gen. Cushing. 

Gen. Cushing, thus introduced, was received 
with thunders of applause. He proceeded to 
speak as follows : 

Speecli of Hon. Caleb Cusliing. 

Mr. President : I rejoice that to you, sir, on 
this occasion, all speech is in the first instance to 
be addressed, — to you, the living representative of 
a name ever honored in the councils of this State 
and of the United States, and of blood sanctified, 
generation after generation, by the red baptism of 
the battle-field (applause) to you, who, called 
from the retirement of years at the voice of yoiir 
country's peril, stand in your venerable white 
hairs, lifted by age tar above those interests and 
passions that may move us lesser men, and stand 
there as a monumental marble statue of the better 
days of the Republic (loud applaase), the fit 
patriot to preside over this great assemblage of 
the aroused and uprising patriotism of Massachu- 
setts. (Renewed applause.) Oh, sir, that Web- 
ster and Choate were here! (Applause.) Oh, 
that Webster were here, to utter words of wisdom 
in those grave tones of his, like the deep cloud 
voices of the sky ! Oh, that Choate were here, 
to stream upon you the flashes of his mind, like 
the lightning of that sky ! Oh, that Webster and 
Choate where here, as, if living, they would be, 
to rebuke treason together ; to hurl upon its foul 
head the blazing thunderbolts of their scorn, their 
indignation, and their wrath ! (tumultuous cheer- 
ing, and cries of "Good," "Good"), and to pro- 
claim trumpet-tongued, to earth and to heaven, 
the fraternal sympathy of the brave old Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts for the brave old Com- 
monwealth of Virginia. (Renewed applause.) 
Oh for an hour of Webster and Choate ! Alas, 
alas, they are gone ; but on you, sir, (addressing 



^Mr. Everett) their companion and their friend, 
their man ;le has descended, and nol)ly do you 
wear it this day. (Applause.) Islo-t nobly do 
you wear it, as, in such thoughts and words of 
transcendent eloqticnce as you alone of living 
men command (cheers), you have spoken here for 
the peace and for the honor of ilassachusetts. 
For me — what remains ? A humble part on this 
great occasion. 

Now, fellow-citizens, let me turn to you. And 
before addressing to you those reflections which 
occur to me as pertinent to the occasion, per- 
mit me to offer a word of personal preface. Let 
me assure you, most solemnly, that no possible 
thought brings me here apart from the perform- 
ance of my duty to myself, in the attempt, at 
least, to utter worthy thoughts in behalf of the 
tarnished honor of Massachusetts. For that, and 
for that alone, I stood upon this platform two 
years ago, and I endeavored to show to the people 
of Massachusetts, that this great Republic, the 
glory of modern civilization, that this great 
Repiiblie, amid the criminations and recrimina- 
tions, North and South, amid the conflict of 
interest and passions which were shaking it 
to its centre, seemed to be on the point of 
committing national suicide, in a transport of 
national madness. I endeavored to show you how 
it was that a handful of highly intellectual but 
most misguided men in this State of Massachusetts, 
animated with tr.e monomania of fanatical devo- 
tion to one single idea, had poisoned the con- 
sciences and corrupted the judgments of so many 
of their fellow-citizens in this Commonwealth. 
I showed you how, under the influence of 
their malign teachings, all party action, 
North and South, was running in the 
channel of a desperate and deplorable section- 
alism, and that, above all, here in Massachu- 
setts, all the political influences dominant 
in this State were founded upon the single emo- 
tion of hate. Aye, hate — treacherous, ferocious, 
fiendish hate—oi our fellow-citizens in the South- 
ern States. (Applause, and cries of "good," 
"good"). And I pleaded to you conciliation, 
mutual forbearance, reconcilement of conflicting 
interests, in order that the Commonwealth of 
INIassachusetts might resume her appropriate 
place as the guide of the patriotism of these 
United States. I pleaded unsuccessfully. I en- 
tered the Legislature of Massachusetts, there to 
combat this sectionalism in the seat of its power. 
I failed of success. I said to myself, in a moment 
of despondency. Why struggle in vain ? AVhy draw 
upon myself the odium of my fellow citizens by 
struggling in vain against this malig-n influence ? 
AVhat^are time and tide to me ? I can play my 
part in the drama of life, whether it be peace or 
war (cheers); and if these misguided passions 
are to bring upon our happy land the calamity of 
civil war, devastation, massacre, ruin, God will 
provide me a duty to perform, and the head and 
the hand to do and to suffer, according to the 
will of His good providence. (Applause.) 

But, gentlemen, it seemed to me still that there 
Avas hope. I resolved to try the experiment, and 
see whether or not the heart of Massachusetts was 
sound. I undertook the defence of three of my 
fellow-citizens, indicted by the State of Massa- 
chusetts, for the voluntary rendition of a fu- 



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gitive from service found in their cu-itody, — questions of law as his counsel — able and learned 
that is, for the performance of what tliey thought men — found to be competent, were carried to the 
to be a duty to the ConstitutiDu of the United highest court of appeal of the Commonwealth of 
States and to their country, although in violation Virginia, and there considered. I say to you, 
of the unconstitutional law and unconstitutional gentlemen, that upon these facts, John Brown 
opinion of the State of ^Massachusetts [cheers] ; was duly and lawfully tried, convicted, sen- 
and there, in that humble village court-liouse at tenced and executed (applause) ; that lie render- 
Barnstable, there, in the presence of that upright ed up a forfeited life to the justice of the State of 
judge, of that conscientious jury, I did find that Virginia : — unless, gentlemen, it were the fact — for 
the heart of the Commonwealth was sound to the no other possible question of law could stand in 
core, [great cheering] ; that it needed only that the way, — that the State of Virginia had not ju- 
men should be reasoned with frankly, undisguised- risdiction of the ofTence committed. If the State 
ly, in order to dispel from their minds those delu- of Virginia had jurisdiction, then her determina- 
sions of one-idead fanaticism which seem to be tion of the question was final and unappeal- 
hurrying the Commonwealth and hurrying the able on this earth. That is the law of the land, 
Union into the unfathomable abyss of destruc- that is the law of the State of Massachusetts ; 
tipn. And now, fellow-citizens, as I stand here, and there are very many gentlemen here who well 
as I see here a representation of the intelligence, remember wlien some years ago, a prisoner was 
of the wisdom, of the virtue, of the strong hearts capitally convicted in the State of Alassachusetts, 
and strong hands of the people of ^Massachusetts, on due trial before our courts, how indignant 
hope and confidence return to my heart. [Ap- the people of Massachusetts were that certain 
plause.] All is not lost. Nay, nothing is lost, persons and journals of the States of New York 
with such sentiments, with such feelings as are and Pennsylvania should presume in-^olently to 
this day exhibited in Faneuil Hall. [Renewed question the legality of this action of the courts 
applause.] of Massachusetts. It was for us to determine that 

Now, gentlemen, to my own humble task. question, we said, and we said truly ; that is the 

Fellow-citizens — Aci izen of one of the Northern fundamental principle of state sovtreigaty — our 
States of this Union, at the head of other citizens, indisputable right to try a criminal tuund red- 
on a certain Lord's Day, on that day of holy rest, handed on our own soil, violating the laws of the 
entered armed — armed for murder and treason — State. 

entered armed, I say, into the State of Vir- Was there conflicting jurisdiction in this case ? 
ginia, burst open the houses of private citi- Gentlemen, it happened to me, when administer- 
zens, and seized them and their property by ing the laws of the United States, to render an 
force, and slaughtered in the streets inoffensive, opinion that the armory at Harper's Ferry is un- 
unarmed men. He undertook then and there to der the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, 
establish a revolutionary government, and proposed and in no part of the jurisdiction of the State of 
to arouse there, to kindle there, those flames of Virginia. That opinion was true. I know it. I 
civil and servile war, and to bring upon that peace- know it as well as I know the multiplication table, 
ful community and State all those horrors of mas- or that the square of the hypothenuse of a right 
sacre, desolation, devastation, rapine and ravish- angled triangle is equal to the square of the two 
ment which are sure to follow in the train of sides. [Loud applause.] I know it of absolute 
a civil and servile war. So engaged, he was knowledge. Now, then, at the opening of the 
arrested in the very act of blood, red-handed, trial of John Brown, his counsel said that this 
with his murdered victims at his feet, and held opinion was incompatible with the progress of 
to trial by the justice of the Commonwealth of the trial, inasmuch as John Brown must be 
Virginia. He was deliberately carried before indicted in the courts of the United S'tates, 
a court of examining magistrates ; he was, in and could not be tried in the courts of Vir- 
the due course of law, presented to the grand ginia. To this point of law, founded upon 
jury of the county ; he was by that niy opinion, the counsel for the Commonwealth 
grand jury indicted and arraigned before replied, improvidently, inconsiderately, unwisely, 
the courts of the State. Before those courts that my opinion was not good law; that it might 
he received not only justice, not only merciful be good law in Massachusetts, but it was not 
treatment, but even more than, in the ordinary good law in Virginia ; and thereupon the trial 
course of the administration of justice, is granted proceeded. I say that was an ill-advised sug- 
to prisoners in this Commonwealth, He had such gestion on the part of the counsel for the Com- 
counsel assigned to him as he chose: he had those monwealth, because it created the impression 
counsel changed at his will for other counsel, and through the Northern States that Virginia had 
he was deliberately and fully tried, and upon that really usurped the power of the United States. 
full and dcdiberate trial, he was convicted of the For the law did not rest upon my opinion. There 
violation of the laws ,of the State of Virginia were adjudications of court after court throughout 
with deliberate malice aforethought ; and upon the Union which established it as law, not in 
upon that conviction he was sentenced, and upon Massachusef-s only, but throughout the United 
that sentence he was executed by the authorities States, wherever land has been purchased for 
of the State of Virginia. (Applause, and cries of federal uses with consent of the State. I say, 
<'Good," "Good.") He was executed as having therefore, it was an ill-advised sugg'Stion of 
justly forfeited his life to the peace and the laws counsel. Gentlemen, if such had been the issue 
of Virginia. Nay, in anticipation of this, he en- on trial, I say here, what in private I have said to 
joyed all possible resources of argument and in- others, I myself would have" done that most in- 
vestigation of the law, to sec if there were any de- vid'ous thing for me to do, — I would have gone 
feet in the proceedings of the trial, and all such to the State of Virginia, I would have appealed 



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to Judge Parker, of the Circuit Court, to Sera- "Extenuation:" "What extenuation ? Gentle- 
tors Mason and Hunter, and to Governor Wise, men, wo have been told that John Brown was 
of Virginia, — i would have appealed to them, by maddened to pcrlorm tliose acts by a sense of the 
every consideration of old and long friendship and wrong committed upon him, in the violent death 
respect, I would have appealed to their reverence of one of his sons in Kansas. Tliat is a question 
for the laws, I would have appealed to their sense of fact. Is it so, gentlemen? Fellow citizens, 
of honor and regard, not to the United States we live here in a populous Commonwealth, with 
only, but to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to all the securities of life and peace around us, un- 
desist from that procedure. Nay, I would have der the shelter, not only of the laws, but of our 
gone one step further ; I would have presented relations to our fellow citizens. But go with me 
myself before the Chief Justice of the United to one of those fertile prairies of the far 
States, and I would have obtained from Roger B. West; go with me to the frontier cabin of a 
Taney a Avrit of error to appeal that question to pioneer settler in the far West. There, gentlemen, 
the tribunals of the United States. [Applause.] in the dead of night, the husband repo-ing in the 
Why did I not ? Gentlemen, a day or two dissi- arms of his beloved wife, with their de; r little 
pated all the mists of this imaginary question ones around them, in the fancied repose of theix 
of jurisdiction. True; acts of murder, acts, if you common safety under the laws of their coun- 
please, of treason, acts of burglary, acts of rapine, try, they are aroused from their slumbers by the 
had been perpetrated upon the grounds of the treacherous approach of armed assassins. The 
Armory at Harper's Feri-y, but not there only ; for husband — two husbands, — are torn from the arms 
John Brown, in this most insane — whatever may of their wives, and ruthlessly slaughtered in cold 
be said of the character of the man — most criminal blood. Nay, their youthful children are brained 
outrage, had been guilty of half a dozen violations before their eyes. Methinks I can hear now the 
of law, three of them, at least, capital felonies by the wailing cry of that poor woman, Mahala Doyle — 
laAvs of the State of Virginia. He had perjietrated of that unhappy Louisa Wilkinson — that wailing 
burglary, robbery, incitement to sedition, treason, cry should smite upon the ears and enter the 
murder — three, at least, I say, capital felonies ; hearts of every one of us — as they cling to the 
and each one of those capital felonies, whatever limbs ot the assassin and pray for the deliver- 
other felonies he may have committed within the ance of their husbands and their children. But 
limits of Harper's Ferry Armory, he had perpe- they spoke to a merciless heart, for ihey spoke to 
trated outside the limits oi Harper's Ferry Armory, John Brown ! (A voice — " That has been de- 
and in the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of nied.") I say, gentlemen, deny it who will, and 
the Commonwealth of Virginia. [Applause.] Avho dare, t/tat man icas John Brotcn. (Loud 
That was the law of this case ; and I now, there- cheers.) He was there, his sword dripping with 
fore, say to you, gentlemen — I say it upon my the gore of those slaughtered, innoffensive, peace- 
judgment as a jurist, I say it on my honor as a ful, slumbering men and children — and that 
man — that John Brown was duly and lawfully sword came from the State of Massachusetts. I 
convicted, in full course of law ; that whatever say that is proved. It is proved by incontroverti- 
forms were involved, they were for the exclusive ble evidence. That evidence exists on record in 
determination cf the State of Virginia ; and there the report of the committee appointed by the 
was no substantial controversy either of law or House of Ilepresentatives to examine into the disor- 
of fact, for there was no imaginable doubt of the ders in Kansas, and has not been denied, nay, has 
guilt of the prisoner. Who says John Brown was again and again been impliedly admitted, bj' John 
notLuilty? W"ho says he did not commit bur- Brown himself. I say, that murderous act of John 
glary ? Wlio says he did not perpetrate invasion Brown was the deliberate initiation of civil war in 
and treason ? Who says he did not slay unarmed, Kansas. And by the lurid light of those blazing 
irioffensive men in the streets of Harper's Ferry? houses, and by the reflection of the demoniac cru- 
No man denies this. Nay, instead of denying elty of that man on that occasion — by all that, 
this, all that is said and done in regard to that is we have the key to events which might other- 
to assume that those acts of atrocious, ferocious wise have been yet wrapped in mystery. That is 
felony were meritorious acts ! I say, then, gentle- the commencement of civil war in these United 
men, all honor to the State of Virginia, [loud States. And it Avas in that same spirit that John 
applause, and cries of "good," "good"] — to her Brown, with an insane ferocity of cruelty, pro- 
judicial authorities, and to her executive au- posed to consign the peaceful inhabitants of the 
thorities ; all honor to the State of Virginia State of Virginia, the millions and millions of 
that this traitor and murderer, apprehended in white men and white women to servile insurrec- 
the very act of murder and treason, was calmly, tion and civil war, and to outrages indescribable, 
duly, fully, and lawfully tried and convicted ac- impossible to be imagined, worse than a million 
cording to tlie law of the land, not alone of the deaths. 

State of Virginia, but of every one of the States But it is said that John Bpoaati was insane, 
of the Union. (Applause.^ and therefore that he should not have been con- 

But then, gentlemen, in these most extraordi- victed. Was he insane ? Gentlemen, I have 
nary manifestations which have occurred in the many times had occasion in this Commonwealth, 
State of Massachusetts and elsewhere — prayer — all reflecting men have had occasion, — to con- 
meetings, public assemblies of rejoicing and of sider a similar question. I cannot meet it here 
pretended subscription (laughter and applause) — without speaking plainly. Shall I speak plain- 
in all these, it is said there is extenuation (if there ly ? [General cries of "Yes," "Yes."] I say, in 
be not other suggestions) applicable to the case, this Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the 
which should change our appreciation of the adjoining State of New York, there is 
character of the acts of John Brown. a handfu. of men of highly intellectual 



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mind, of the highest culture, literary and the assassins of Italy, who, to prevent the 
scientific, men who would seem to be born to progress of moderate reform, and to substi- 
bless their day and gi'neration — such as Wendell tute their own monomania, slauijhtered llossi at 
Phillips, Lloyd Garrison, Waldo Emerson, Thco- the steps of the Vatican. In Vienna the good 
dore Parker, and Gerrit Smith — wlio by constant Count Lemborg, and in Prague the Princess 
brooding upon one single idea — tliat idea if you Windischgratz, Avere assassinated in the same in- 
please a right one, abstractly — have come to be sane spirit of proposed political and social reform, 
monomaniacs of that idea, [applause,] and so That is the distinctive quality of these offences. 
have become utterly lost to the moral rela- The idea of John Brown is that by cold-blooded, 
tions of right and wrong. In tlieir private fraudulent, midnight assassination, he is to pro- 
relations not one of them would injure tlie mote the reform of the institutions of tlie State of 
hair even of my head. [Laughter.] Not one Virginia and of the Southern States. And these 
of them, unless upon the question of slavery ; assassins die game. Does that make them good 
and then such is the atrocious ferocity of mind men ? So, gentlemen, I now say, that not Only 
into which they have been betrayed by this was John Brown duly and legally tried and con- 
monomania, that they declare in so many victed, but that he was duly and lawfully exe- 
words, and therefore I may say it is so, their cuted, and rendered up a justly forfeited life to 
readiness to break down all laws, human and the justice of the State of Virginia. (Applause.) 
di^nne, — nay, that under the influence of this What more, gentlemen? We have had our 
monomania they have set up in this Common- ears filled with alleged sympathies for John 
wealth a public policy of assassinatiou and a Brown, of apologies for his act, of reproaches 
religion of hate — aye, a religion of hate, such as against the persons whom he was end:'avoring to 
belongs only to the condemned devils in hell, slaughter in cold blood, of sneers at the State of 
(applause.) I say it is a religion of hate, and of Virginia, of ridicule of the terror felt by the un- 
blasphemy, — oh God ! that such .hings are in this armed women and children of Virginia. For it 
our day. They have set up this religion of hate, is not the men of Virginia, — it is the women, — 
and they blasphemously call that Christianity. I it is the tender and sensitive white sisters of the 
put this question to yon — whether these demoniac women of Massachusetts, — who felt these terrors, 
passions and this truculent ferocity of pretended For them the Abolitionists have no sympathy, 
philanthropy upon the subject of slavery insti- but only for Jolm Brown. Gentlemen, it is not 
tutions have not stifled in them all there is of sympathy for John Brown. It is another 
eood in the human lieart, and all there is of form of the manifestation of that same intense 
divine in the aspirations of human hearts to God and ferocious hatred of the people of the South, 
and to Heaven. This they have done, and the which animates the persons of whom Ave are 
question is properly asked, are they sane? I speaking (applause). Hatred — hatred! Now 
cannot pronounce on that subject. What would the fact has been told us that in all times 
a commission of lunacy saj' to it ? I know not. hate must have its food of blood; aye, hate 
I know that the imputed insanity of John Brown must have its food of blood. How long are 
is that his intelligence has become perverted, that the people of Massachusetts to have their souls 
his heart is gangrened, that his soul is steeled continually perverted with these preachings, aye, 
against everthing human and conscientious by that pulpit preachin.s of hatred, tliough, thank God, 
same monom inia, which pervades the speeches and these blasphemous preachers of iiatred and trea- 
writings of Wendell Phillips and Waldo Emer- son are but one to a thousand among the admira- 
son. Are they insane? I say again, I know not. ble and revered clergymen of Massachusetts (ap 
and yet I p luse in charity, for have we not now plause). I ask you, gentlemen, how long these 
before us the spectacle, most painful to every well emotions of mutual hate are to go on Avithout 
settled heart, have we not the spectacle of one of shedding blood. Blood has begun to be shed — 
their number, as Avise in his day and generati on in that Avorst possible form, of treacherous, ma- 
as they, Avith the same ostentatious pretences of lignant, cold-hearted midnight assassination ; — 
good and of right, and the same crazy perver- nay, not only has there been shedding of blood, 
sion of Christianity and the Bible — have Ave but that shedding of blood, coming from North- 
not before us the spectacle of Gerrit Snith ern States, has as its avowed object to jjropagate 
in a hospital for lunatics in the State of New throughout the Southern States, revolution, ser- 
York ? (Proft)und silence.) And I do say, vile and civil war,anduniA'ersal devastation. Whj', 
tSiat unless all monomaniac Abolitionists are to gentlemen, is not that Avar in disguise ? Seek as you 
be deemed insane and incapable of distinguish- Avill to disguise it fron^ your oavu thoughts, that is 
ing betAveen right and wrong, in a question of the thought in the hearts of those persons Avho en- 
murder and of treason and of burglary and tertain these emotions. It is Avar in disguise, and 
of robbery, then John Brown Avas not in- it presents this extraordinary fact, gontlemen, — 
sane, and therefore Avas not entitled to any such a f ict as exists nowhere else upon this earth, 
consideration upon that pretext. And avc in any civilized country. It [)resents the extraor- 
know Avell that he Avould have been the la.-t to dinary fact that, Avhereas, if any citizen of ^las- 
assume any such pretext ; Ave know Avell that he sachusetts should fit out a hostile expedition 
acted Avith that stolid indifference to the atrocity against Canada, should prepare arms in the city 
of his acts, which in all time has distinguished of Boston, sliould raise money and troops for the 
political and religions assassins — Avhichmnybe purpose of invading England or France, there is 
found in the character of Guy FaAvkes, and which abundant law to punish that act, and to arrest 
animated the llavaillacs and the Jacques Clem- the offender in the prosecution of tlie crime ; but 
ents of France. The same spirit distingir. shed in this Union there is no law to punish the fact 



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that a citizen of Ohio, Pennsylvania or Massa- Massachusetts, but of the United States. We 
chusetts engages in fitting out an expedition ot are one nation. V/e are one in constitutional 
private war and invasion and bloodshed against bond: Ave should be one in heart and patriotic 
the State of Virginia. There is no law to reach devotion. Shall we not be? Shall we in Massa- 
it. It would seem that our forefathers, in omit- chusetts continue thus to nourish the sentiments 
ting to provide for such a contingency, had of mutual rancor and hostility upon an abstract 
acted as we are told the old Republics did question wholly beyond our reach and authority ? 
in regard to the crime of parricide ; they It we do so, gentlemen, we know well the conse- 
did not believe that anything so abominable quences. We know that not only must this federal 
could occur in the United States, and there- compact break by its own weight, we know not 
fore they provided no law to punish it. only that the time has come when we shall all 
Now, gentlemen, what would you think, and have to say farewell to the glories of the Union, 
Avhat would be your condition, if such an inva- farewell to the vaunted glories of the American 
sion of slaughter and of murder were attempted Union ; but when there will be for us the more ter- 
by citizens of Virginia _ in Massachusetts ? rible and dismal spectacle of civil war upon our 
Would you not think it strange that you own soil in Massachusetts. For, gentlemen, when 
had no protection, by any law whatever, we look forward to the consequences of a disrup- 
against such an act ? that you were living in the tion of this Union, is the North then to invade the 
Union, not to enjoy its benefits, but only to be sub- South for the purpose of carrying on an armed 
feet to hostile inroads from other States ? Would prosecution of these projects of interference with 
you not think that strange, extraordinary, in- the institutions of the South ? Will the North 
credible, intolerable? What would you say it undertake that? Gentlemen, if the North does 
that state of things went on year after year, even not undertake that, it will have sacrificed every 
for a generation almost. What would you say thing of peace and honor for a delusion and a 
if in the State of Virginia, there Avere organized shadow. Will the North do it? Let these men 

bands of invaders, armed by subscrijjtion socie- try. Gentlemen, are there not others, "-allant 

ties in Richmond, who entertained in '.heir hearts and patriotic men, — are there not others enou"-h 
such sentiments of philanthropic hatred towards in the State of Massachusetts, Avho, if any 
YOU, as would cause them to plant tliose such traitorous purpose should be attempted 
arms at your heart if they could reach it? against the South, Avar of invasion for the de- 
Would you not say, gentlemen, any open Avar is struction of the Union and the government of 
better than such Avar in disguise ? In open Avar the Union — are there not men enough here to 
we at least could meet our enemies face to face, seize the traitors by the tluoat, [loud cries of 
and Avith the possible chance of a gallant death "yes, yes," and great applause,] and say, "You 
in brave encounter Avith the foe ; but to be must Avalk over our bodies, you shall not 
slaughtered treacherously at midnight, and to otherwise engage in this fratricidal, suicidal, cIa-U 
have no remedy for that by the laAvs of the land, war Avith your felloAV-citizens of other States !" 
gentlemen, that is an impossible state of things to I say, that whenever this state of things approach- 
continue in the United States. es, the Avar Avill not be upon ilason & Dixon's 

And let us not lay the flattering unction to line, but it Avill be here upon the soil of Ncav 
our sou]s that Ave may, in the State of Massachu- England, and betAveen those who hate the Consti- 
setts, continue to organize expeditions of rapine tution of the country, betAveen those Avho declare 
and treason and assasination against the people that the Constitution is a covenant Avitli the devil 
of the State of Virginia, — I say, let us not and a league Avith hell — I say, there will be Avar 
lay that flattering unction to our souls. Nay, betAveen them, and those Avho are devotedly 
Ave ought not to do it. If Ave are men, if we have attached to the Constitution, and determined at 
asparkof manliness in us, if Ave are not utterl 3' cor- all hazards to maintain the Union. [Applause.] 
rupted, perverted and lost to every sense of truth Noav, gentlemen, I have long enough occupied 
and of honor, Ave shall say, and ought to say — it your attention. I Avill, howeA-er, suggest one 
is mean, it is indescribably, unspeakably mean to other train of thought of a jjractical nature ap- 
insist upon enjoying the benefits of the Union with- propriate to the circumstances Avhich surround us 
out participating in its burdens; it is treacherous to noAV in the State of Massachusetts. Gentlemen, 
demand the execution of the bond of Union by the Mr. "Everett has depicted to us the horrors of 
State of Virginia, and not execute it ourselves ; it civil and serA-ile Avar. We have seen Avhat Avould 
is hy^iocritical to approach and say, "Art, thou come to us if this great and glorious Republic 
Avell, my brother ?" for the purpose of stabbing should, like others of the old time, explode under 
him under the fifth rib. I say, it Avouldbe mean, the convulsions of civil Avrath, and go doAvn in de- 
treacherous, hypocritical, to pretend that that struction and darkness to the realms of Erebus and* 
state of things is to continue, and therefore Ave Nox. We haA'e seen the danger. Is there a reme- 
ar. here assembled to discountenance all such dy : Can Ave avert these CA'ils ? Can Ave contri- 
sentiments, all such passions, and all such crim- bute to avert them ? We can, you can, Gentle- 
inal enterprises on the part of the people of the men, it is most remarkable in the present condi- 
Northern States against those of the Southern. tion of the State of Massachusetts, that more 

We vaunt the greatness of the United States : than one-half of the registered voters of the Com- 
our memories are filled Avith the reminiscences ot monwealth do obstinately and persistently re- 
the glories of the Revolution : Ave look back upon fuse to exercise the electiA-e franchise ; aye, more 
the Washirgtons, the Greenes and the Lincolns of than one-half the registered voters of Massachu- 
the days of the Revolution, and Ave say setts. And yet, the government of a state is 
that these heroes and demigods are not that Avhich the suffrages of its people provide, 
the heroes and demigods of Vii-ginia oi The public opinion of a state is that Avhich a 



22 UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 

majority, an apparent majority, ot its people pro- majesty of your might, people of Massachusetts — 

nouncc. "What is the voice of a majority of the rise in the majesty of your might, and redeem the 

people of this State ? I say, more than one-half honor and the fame of the good old Common- 

of its registered voters have not, either in speech -wealth. [Enthusiastic Cheering.] 
or act, expressed themselves. They seem to have 

commenced at last to discharge that great civil 

duty here to-day in Faneuil ILiU. Will they go 

on from .vords to acts ? Will they, by their acts, ^^^^ invitation to gek. pierce. 
manliest their devotion and attachment to the 

honor of M:issachusctts ? Gentlemen, I speak Boston, Dec. 3, 1859. 
here for no party. I have my own party prepos- Dear Sir, — In view of the present disturbed con- 
sessions, strong enough, as you all know, but I dition of public sentiment, and the dangers which 
say I speak for no party here. But I would that threaten our Union, it is proposed that citizens of 
you, the 120.000 registered votci^ of Massachu- Massachusetts who honor and cherish the Union- 
setts who do not vote, and to whom belong the , ^ • . • xi. /-. .-. .• <• .i, tt •. j 
, , £• .1 o. .. 11 .. 1 ^ who mean to maintain the Constitution of the United 
voice and vote ot the btate, would act, and not „ i , ■ , , , 

leave the government of the State, as you do, in ^^^^^^^ """"^ faithfully to carry out all its requirements 

the hands of 58,000 voters, less than one-fourth and obligations, assemble in Faneuil Hall, on Thurs- 

of the registered voters of the State. I would day the eighth day of December, instant, at eleven 

that you would act. If you do not like the o'clock in the forenoon. 

opinions of either of the parties, now di\-iding Your presence on the proposed occasion would give 

the country, rise in the majesty of your strength, especial gratification; and maywe not hope that it 

and crush them all ! (Applause.) [A voive- ^^.^^ ^^ j^,^ ^^^ ^^ ^^.^^ ^^.^^ ^^^^^^ ^.^.^ 

1 hey will do It at the proper time. 1 shall re- ^ ,, . , , , , . , -.r 

joice, .ir, at anv party defeat which may befall zens of all parties, who honor and chensh the Union, 

me, so that thc'Commonwealth be restored to its "^ t>"s manifestation of devotion to the Constitution 

proper place in that resplendent galaxy of the of the United States, and the continued peaceful pros 

constellations of the Union. perity of ihe Republic. 

Gentlemen, a band of drunken mutineers has With great respect, 

seized hold of the political opinion of this Com- Your obedient servants 

monwcalth, — avowed and proclaimed enemies of \V^,i. ArrLETOx 

the Constitution of the United States: nay, equal- Franklin Haven, I 

ly clamorous enemies of the Constitution of the Henry J. Gardner, | 

State of Massachusetts; for these same persons de- LeverettSaltonstall, I -p ^. 

nounce, vituperate, and calumniate, with impar- George Lunt, / Coj^jn^ijtgg 

tiality of wrath, both the parties which now John T. Heard 

divide the Commonwealth. Did not Wendell ^:1:R\^A 
Phillips lately let out his heart in the infa- 
mous adjuration, "God damn Massachusetts ?" I 
say, a band of drunken mutineers has seized hold 
of the control of the public opinion of the State. 
Where is the helmsman ? W^ho is he ? [A voice, 
" BuRNHAM." This response excited shouts of 

laughter. So apt seemed the answer, that every following letter from Gen. Pierce : 

man in the hall, ludicrous as it was was for a Concord, N. H., December 7, 1859. 

moment thrown from his gravity.] Where, I ask, Gentlemen : I am honoredJ)v the recention of your 

is the helmsman ? Has he sold himself to the iru- letter of the third instant, informing me that " it is 

tineers? No, gentlemen; but the mutineers stand proposed that ci'izens of Massachusetts, who honor 

■with a pistol at his head, commanding him to and cherish the Union, who mean to maintain the 

obey or die ! And so the good ship of Constitution of the United States, and faithfully to 

State drifts on,— drifts, drifts, with the storm carry out all its requirements and obligations assem- 

howling around her, drifts on towards the gulf ^^ '"^ faneuil Hall on Thursday, the eighth day of 

1} r.- -xi .1 1.1 , n i- .1 ■ ^ a December lustant; and inviting me to be present on 

of perdition, with the black li;ig of the pirate fly- ^j^^^^ occasion. 

ing at the mizen : aye, and the piratical death's- Twenty-five years ago, one would have asked invol- 

liead at the fore ; black, black all over — from stem untarily, upon reading a letter like that before me, 

to stern and from truck to keelson. I say, the what are the dangers which threaten the Union ; 

good ship of state drifts on to perdition. [Loud and where are the men who do not honor and cherish that 

prolonged applause.] And where are you, the Union", who do not 'mean to maintain the Constitu- 

cifzens of :Massachusetts, who should be her offi- ^'on of the United btates and fait hfully^to carry out 

1 ■^ n^u ,. ^ \ ■ ■ e ■ U4. 1 -.i all its requirements and oblif;ations .■' Cculd we not 

cc.-s and crew ? Ihat good shiu is freighted with ^^ ^J^^ f,,^ hUnseU, have promptly answered,-the 

ail your earthly hopes— you and your wives and dangers, if they exist, are too remote, and the men 

your dear children, are there as passengers, and too inconsiderable in numbers, and too wild and cx- 

you all sit in torpid apathy, or shameful indeci- travagant in the principles and purposes which they 

sion, or sullen despair. VTou sit and see the avow, to make ihem the cause of even serious consid- 

drunken mutineers, as they are about to blow up eraiion, much less of apprehension and disquietude. 

the ship and all it contains, and vou do not move "."^\ »V' ^°-^*y ■ , ^^°)'' '^ '\ ^° ^': to-niorr..w when 

„T„ , . ,„„i, _ c „, _,.: , ' ,1 t^, „„„,.!,„ patriotic hearts will beat in unison in the old Cradle 

a hand to rescue her from run, and to carry her J,f Liberty, and patriotic lips will repeat the senti- 

back to the path of peace and security. I appeal ^g^^g and doctrines which were enunciated there more 

to you, citizens ot Massachusetts, I implore you, than eighty years ago, while the men of Virginia were 

to awake from this lethargy! Rise, I say, in the preparing" their crude but trusty weapons, not cspe- 



SlDNEY WeRSTER, 

To the Hon. Franklin Pierce. 



LETTER FROM EX-PRESIDENT FRANKLIN PIERCE. 

Leverett Saltonstall, Esq., here read the 



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cially to protect their own borders, which have now tinue to enjoy the multiplied and multiplying bless- 
been ruthlessly invaded in violation of all law, human ings of the peerless inheritance which has been trans- 
and divine, but to come to Massachusetts and mingle mitted to us. If otherwise, fanaticism has not mis- 
their blood with that of our fathers in defence of the taken the sia;nificance of its emblem, — the natioiial 
common cause. flag with " the Union down." That flag has waved 

Undisputed r''quirements of the Constitution, af- through three foreign wars, with the Union vp ; 
fecting the riuhts, the security of life and property of cheering the hearts of brave men, on sea and land, 
the sons of Virginia's revolutionary men, are set at wherever its folds have unrolled in the smoke of bat- 
nought. Lessons inculcating disobedience to such tie! How many of our countrymen, as they have 
requirements have been scattered broadcast in our seen it floating from the mast-head in a foreign port, 
community, and have borne their fruits, not merely in or giving its ample sweep to the breeze over a consu- 
the exhibition of an insurrectionary spirit, but in an lar office, have proudly and exultingly exclaimed : "I 
actual invasion of a sister State t,y an armed organiza- am an American citizen, and tliere is the ensign 
tion, the objects of which are not disguised. This is which commands for me respect and security, wher- 
not all. Tne invasion, and the overt acts of treason e\er throughout the wide world I may roam, or 
and murder, are openly justified and appla\ided at wherever I may choose temporarily to dwell I" How 
largenieeiings of men and women in your midst. one would shut his eyes, and cover his face in shame 

This is a sad truth, but not disheartening. It may and sorrow, if he teiieved he were destined to see 
be well that circumstances have occurred" to arouse the day when that flag will float no more. And yet 
us from our lethargy, and to compel us to open our if agitators and conspirators can have their way, it 
eyes, as if from ttie delusion of a dream, to the near- must go dotvn in darkness and blood. In a Republic 
ness and magnitude of impending calamities. It is like ours, law alone upholds it, and wiien that loses 
comparatively safe to look dangers in the face, and its power, all human power to save is lost. If such 
meet them on the advance, but fatal to be appalled overwhelming disaster to humanity is to overtake us, 
by them. I, for one, will not try to peer through the darkness 

I repeat that the aspect of affairs, dark as it con- and blackness, or to foreknow the end. 
fessedly is, still is not disheartening, because I be- Let us act calmly and deliberately, without passion 
lieve there are in New England, and throughout the and without acrimony. Let us take no hasty or nar- 
Middle and North Western States, multitudes of row view of the causes which have produced the dan- 
conscientious and patriotic c'tizens, moved, it may gers we would meet, and if possible avert. It is not 
be at this moment, by sentiments differing widely the recent invasion of Virginia which sliould awaken 
from those which will animate you to-morrow, but our strongest apnreheusion, but the teachings, still 
who, nevertheless, would not willfully and deliberate- vehemently persisted in, from which it sprung, with 
ly shake a single column which/sustains the fabric of the inevitable necessity which evohes the effect from 
our existin.- institutions, — multitudes who have been the cause. 

misled upon the question of duty and personal obli- So, again, it is to be remembered that those who 
gations, and who now, when they have practical illus- boldly approve and applaud the acts of treason and 
tration, drawn in blood, of the Jrachings to which murder perpetrated within the limits of Virginia, are 
they have listened, and to which they may have given not the most dangerous enemies of the Constitution 
their assent, will pause, long enough, at least, to take and the Union. Subtle, crafty men, who, passing by 
counsel ot intelligent reason. duties and obligations, habitually appeal to sectional 

\ou, upon the soil of Massachusetts, where the prejudices and passions, by denouncing the institutions 
first blood of the revolution was shed, and where and people of the South, and thus inflame the North- 
Washington took command of the Army in one of the em mind to the pitch of resistance to the clear pro- 
darkest periods in our Country's history, cannot gaze visions of the fundamental law, — who, under plausible 
listlessly upon the gathering clouds, and will not bow pretexts, addressed to those prejudices and passions, 
tamely befi)re the coming storm. We may all have pass local laws designed to evade Constitutional obli- 
regarded wiih too much indifference the swelling tide gations, are really and truly, whether they believe it 
of reckless fanaticism, but we are not too lace to or not, the men who are hurrying us upon swift de- 
breast it now. If honest men, who really think the struction. 

Union worth preserving, will stand forth in the ma- Your reprobation of the ethical and political teach- 
jesty and strength of patriotism and law, and with ings which ins|)ire this line of conduct, will, I am 
united purpose and becoming energy, they can and sure, be pronounced in tones so earnest that no man 
will roll that tide back, to the dismay and discomfiture can mistake their import. You ^^ill show, on your 
of all conspirators against the public peace, and the part, readiness to give to fellow-citizen iof other 
integrity of the sacred bond which holds us a united States such just legislation by Congress, as s hall 
people. provide for the punishment, not only of actual inva- 

I am glad to perceive that your meeting is to be sion, but for the setting on foot of armed expeditions, 
composed of citizens of various parties. The high and thus do what you may effectually to secure, by 
resolve and the solemn duty to which 1 have just constitutional enactments, each State against violence 
adverted rise above the range of thoughts and motives from any other. I shall 1 ope thst your meeting will 
which ordinarily connect themselves with political awaken a spirit, which will lead Massachusetts and 
organization, and party success. If we are true to Virginia to arasp again reciprocally the hand of af- 
ourselves ; if we revere the memory, or appreciate the fectionate sympathy and support — of love and honor 
services of our Fathers, we shall forget, in the exi- — as they did in 177G, when, as tlie elder and more 
gency of this crisis, that there is, or ever has been, such powerful of the colonies, they made up the issue of 
thing as party in the ordinary acceptation of the term, blood against the power of an unjust Parliament. 
At all events, W3 will forget it, until, through our Why should it not be so ? Is there any cause of 
steady, united efforts, we see the authority of the alienation, on our part, which did not exist at the for- 
Constitution vindicated, and the Union reposing again mation of the Government? When have the people 
securely upon its old foundations. of the South invaded our territory, slain our people, 

You are right in assuming that this is no time for or conveyed away our property ? Why sliould not 
hesitancy ; no time for doubting, halting, half-way the authority of New Hampshire honor and cherish 
professions, or, indeed, for mere professions of any the authority of Mississippi ? Are they not each 
kind. It is a time for resolute purpose, to be followed sovereign, but yet are they not bound up to- 
by decisive, consistent action. gether in the endearing bond of a common 
Shall the fundamental law of the land be obeyed, country ? To establish upon a firm footing these re- 
nol with evasive reluctance, but in good fidelity ? lations between all the States what is required but 
Have we the power to enforce obedience to it, and cordial, loyal, manly recognition and enforcement, in 
will we exercise that power ? It so, then may we Cv>n- spirit and in act, of all the requirements of the com- 



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pact cnforrd into bv the fathers who have passed to 
their reward ? Can it be that there is, anions any 
large portion of our people, North or South, settled 
purpose to accept the benefits, but deny the burthens 
of the Constitution ? Have all sentiments of patriot- 
ism and honor perished together ? If that time has 
come, or you discern its approach, then, indeed, 
should you, who desire to live under this Constitu- 
tion, expounded by the auiiust tribunal into whose 
charge our fathers gave its exposition, raise the voice 
of warning, and save, if it be possible, ttie voice of 
woe. But it has not come, and it is still in your 
power to say it shall not. There is no inevitable, irre- 
sistible impulse hurrying it forward. 

I deny, in the name of all that is most sacred and 
precious in our inheritance, that there is an element 
of "irrepressil)Ie conflict" between the Southern and 
Northern members of this confederation. The doc- 
trine is as unsound and untrue as it is fearful. It is 
contradicted by the unbroken ex[)erience of the first 
fifty yei.rs of our history. It would have been the 
price of the loss of reputation for life, to have uttered 
it while the men wtio fought the battles of the revolu- 
tion, and framed the Ctmstitution were yet alive. 
No ! It has not come, and with the blessing of God, 
upon the exertions of good and patriotic men, it will 
never be nearer. 

I have faith in the power of your efforts, my fellow 
citizens, — faith that your example, in this relation, 
will be followed, and your action imitated, not only in 
other parts of Massachusetts, but by citizens of other 
States, who appreciate the blessings which the Con- 
stitution has coi.ferred upon tneui, and who, come 
what may, intend on their native soil, and with their 
children around them, to claim its protection and up- 
hold its authnricy. I have faith, above all, that the 
continued favor of the God of our fathers, who watched 
over our feeble political beginnings, who preserved us 
through the innumerable perils of the struggle for na- 
tionality, will yet make the wrath of man subservient 
to the peace and durability of this Union. 

With thanks for your remembrance of me on this 
occasion, and regrets that it is impossible for me to 
meet you in Faneuil Hall, I am, gentlemen, very truly. 
Your friend. 



FuANKLiN Pierce. 



Hon. Wm. ArrLETON, 
Franklin Haven, 
Henry J. Gardner, 



LevERHTT SaLTONSTALL, ^ •n'„„„„t:,.„ n Ut^^ 

George Lunt. VExecutive Committee 



John T. Heard, 
S. T. Dana, 
Sidney Webster, 



THE COMMITTEE'S INVITATION. 

Boston, Dec. 3, 1859. 
Sir, — The undersigned, on behalf of the Executive 
Comniitieo, respectfully invite you to be present at a 
Public Meeting, to be held at Faneuil Hall, in this 
City, on THURSD.\Y NEXT, December 8, at 11 
o'clock, A. M., to express National Sintiments, in 
view of the growing division of feeling between the 
Northern and Souti.ern parts of the Union. 

It is the desire of the Coniiniltee. that you should 
permit, y.ur name to be used as that of one of the 
Vi^e Presidents. An immediate reply is requested. 
Your obedient servants, 

Wm. ArrLETON, 
Franklin Haven, 
George Lint, 
Sidney Wehster, 
Henry J. Gardner, 
Leverett Saltonstall. 



"We give here a portion of the letters received 
by the Committee : 



letter from governor morton. 

Taunton, D?c. 5, 1859. ; 
Monday Evening ^ 
Gentlemen, — Your communication of 3d instant, 
notifying me of a Public Meeting to be holden in Fan- 
euil Hall, on Thursday next, has just been received. 
No political subject can be of deeper interest to all 
the people of the United States, than the one which 
you propose to discuss; and no place better calculated 
to evoke liberal and patriotic sentiments in its consid- 
eration. It would give me great pleasure to join in 
the proceedings, and to perform any part to the best 
of my power, which might promote the spirit of union. 
But my present infirmities deny me the pleasure of 
joining in your assemblage, or any other very numerous 
meeting. 

With my most fervent prayers, for the suppression 
of any " growing division of feeling between different 
sections or individuals of our country," I am, with 
high consideration and respect, for those whom you 
represent, as well as yourselves. 

Your obedient servant, 

Marcus Morton. 



letter from governor CLIFFORD. 

New Bedford, Dec. 5, 1859. 

Gentlemen, — I have the honor to acknowledge the 
receipt of your invitation " to be present at a public 
meeting to be heM at Faneuil Hall on Thursday next, 
to express national sentiments in view of the growing 
division of feeling between the Northern and South- 
ern parts of the Union," and " to permit my name to 
be used as that of one of the Vice Presidents." 

With the object of the proposed meeting, as ex- 
pressed in your note, I heartily sympathise, and my 
name is quite at its service. But as a professional 
engagement for that day may render it ini; ossible for 
me to be present, I desire to state very briefly through 
this medium, the views I should feel it to be my 
duty to express if I participated in its proceedings. 

I think it is clearly the duty of every Northern man, 
who has patriotism enough to embrace in his regards 
the whole of our common country, and who is unwil- 
ling to be ranked " ilh the sympathisers and abettors 
of murder and rapine, and an unprovoked interference 
with the peace and safety of a sister State, to do what 
he can to disabuse the minds of our fellow-citizens of 
the South of the impression that this class of persons 
comprises any considerable portion of the people of 
the Northern States. I deeply regret that there 
should be found anv amongst us, so regardless of all 
law, human and divine, and so wanting in a just and 
generous spirit of loyalty to the Union and the Con- 
stitution, as to give the countenance of their silence, 
even, much more of their vituperative speech, to the 
recent atrocious incursion of a band of marauders 
and murderers into the State of Virginia. 

To every one who participated in that enormous 
crime, whether by action, or by counsel, the sentence 
of the law, fairly administered, whenever and wherev- 
er it can reach him, is (.qual anu exact justice — and 
nothing more. 

But in withholding our sympathy and support from 
those in the North who would imperil the Union of 
these States by such acts as tend directly to its disso- 
lution, we have the right to claim from our fellow-citi- 
zens of the South, that their sympathy and support 
shall not be given to those whose official declarations 
of treason actually i hreaten its dissolution. Espe- 
cially when the ground on which such a throat is uttered 
is that recently assigned by the Govornor of South 
Carolina, as a new test of ineligibility to the office of 



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President, not found in the Constitution of the United 8th inst, has been just received. Believing that the 
States. time has a^ain arrived when a demonstration of con- 
Both these classes of persons, North and South, or fidence in llie Constitution of our Country and in 
wherever their disloyal sentiments are manifested, Ilepublican govern.nent is calculated to strengthen 
must be equally and unsparingly condemned, by all and secure them, because demagogues have again put 
true-hearted lovers of their country and their whole them in peril, I accept the invitation and ihe posi- 
country, whose resolves of unswerving fidelity to the tion you do me the honor to assign me, with much 
Union and the Constitution, I trust will go forth w'iih satisfaction, and remain, gentlemen, your obliged 
healing and invigorating power from your gathering humble servant, B. Flint King. 
at Faneuil Hall. 



I am, e-tntlemen, 

With great respect, 

Your friend and fellow-citizen, 

John H. Clifford. 



Gentlemen, 



LETTER FROM SAMUEL L. CROCKER. 

Taunton, Dec. 5, 1859. 



LETTER FROM A. PHELPS, JR. 

Springfield, Dec. 5, 1859. 
Hon. "Wm. Appleton. Sir, — By letter dated Bos- 
ton, Dec. 3, 1859, purporting to be signed by you and 
other gentlemen constituting an Executive Commit- 
tee, I am requested to permit my name to be used as 
that of one of the Vice-Presidents of a public meeting 



I had the honor duly to receive your ^^ ^^ j^eld at Faneuil Hall on the 8th inst, " to express 



note of invitation to be present at a public meetm 



national sentiments in view of the growing division of 



beheld at Faneuil Hall on Thursday next, to express fgpij^g between the Northern and Southern parts of 

national sentiments, in view of the growing division the Union." Inasmuch as I cordially concur in the 

of feeling, between the Northern and Southern p-,rts ^^^^^.^ ^f tj^g meeting I am very willing to have my 

01 the Union. The object has my most cordial ap- ^^^.e used as suggested, and I shall endeavor to be 

proval, and you are at liberty to use my name in any present to hear patriotic sentiments uttered which 

way you may deem best, for Us furiherance. ,,.in, i trust, be reiterated throughout the Free Stat.s, 

A ery respectfuHy, and will satisfy our Southern brethren that the whole 

lour obd t sery t. North is not smitten with the miserable negro-phobia 

Sam. h. CROCKER. ^-hich so seriously threatens a dissolution of the 

existing federal compact. Respectfully yours, 

A.Phelps, Jr. 

LETTER from PROFESSOR FELTON. 

Cambridge, Dec. 3, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — I entirely approve of the proposed 
meeting in Faneuil Hall. The object of it must com- 
mend itself to good men of all parties. If it were a 
common political meeting, I should decline to have 
my name presented for any office connected with it ; 



LETTER FROM LORENZO SABINE. 

Boston, Dec. 5, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — Your note of the 3d inst, this moment 
received, and I promptly reply, that, " in view of the 
rowing division of feeling between the Northern and 



but the purpose for which the meeting is to be called, ■ , - ^ , tt • .. , i. 

infinitely transcends any of the questions at issue in Southern parts of the Union, you may make such 

the politics of the day. and concerns every citizen who use of my name m yoiir arrangements for the public 

desires to preserve tlie constitution and the govern- meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall, on Ihursday the 

ment, and t . save the country from civil war. 8th inst, as you deem proper. Very truly, your friend 



Ucgardinsi the subject in this light, I feel it my duty 

to comply with your request, and to " permit my name 

to be used as that of one of the Vice Presidents," 

should it continue to be the desire of the Committee. 

Very truly yours, 

C. C. Felton. 



Lorenzo Sabine. 



letter from k. j. lord. 

Salem, Dec. 5, 



1859. 

Gentlemen, — I this morning received your invita 
on " to be present at a public meeting to be held 
Fanueil Hall on Thursday next, to express nation 



letter from j. THOMAS STEVENSON. 

Boston, Dec. 3, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — I have this morning received your 
note, in which you express a desire that I should per- 
mit my name to be used as that of one of the Vice 
Presidenis at the meeting to be held in Faneuil Hall 
on Thursday. Certainly — and it is only to be regret- 
ted that such should be the condition of things as to 
^ ^ , ,. .. ,-, , ,, . make it necessary to obtain in advance, from any loyal 

tion "to be present at a public meetmg to be held at permission to use his name (however humble) 

Fanueil Hall on Thursday next, to express national ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^-^ co-operation, in a public meeting, 
sentiments m view of the growmg division of feeling .^-njch is called for the avowed nurpose of declaring 
between the Northern and Southern parts of the attachment to the Union and the Constitution of the 
Union. I accept the invitation with the greatest j y^ respectfully, your obedient servant, 

pleasure, and rejoice that an opportunity is given to ^ ■' ' •' -^j^ Xhos. Stevenson. 

me to unite with my fellow-citizens in the North, in 

the assurance to our brethren in the South, that the 

feelings which dictated the compromises of the Con- 
stitution still continue to actuate us and lead us to LETTER FROM GENERAL butler. 
preserve and to transmit unimpaired to posterity, that Boston, Dec. 6, 1859. 
precious legacy, which we received from our fathers. Gentlemen, — It is more than probable that an im- 
and to perform all the duties which it devolves upon pgrative professional engagement will prevent my 
us. Use my name for that of one of the Vice-Presi- personal presence with you at the public meeting in 
dents, as you desire, or for any other purpose to carry Paneuil Hall on Thursday next. I can have no hesi- 
out the object of the meeting. Respectfully your tation in joining my fellow citizens in any expression 



obd't serv't. 



N. J. Lord. 



letter from b. flint king. 



Concord, Dec. 6, 18.59. 



which would tend to allay the excitement of a part of 
our national confederacy, because of the unjustifiable 
raid upon their safety and domestic quiet. Let every- 
thing be done to assure the South, that, in spite of the 
toiling of bells at the death of an executed criminal. 



Gentlemen,-Your letter of invitation to'be pres'ent oVeurogistic speeches upon his treason a.d murders 
at a meeting of National Men at Faneuil Hall, oa the the great heart of the North beats true to us constitu- 



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tionarobligatiors, and its pulsations are not accurate- 
ly to be counted by the spasmodic agirations of the 
few who so loudly claim to represent public 0( inion 
here. The only possible suggestion that can be made 
against the proposed meeting, would be, tliat such a 
demonstration would elevate into too much apparent 
consideration those agitators, and cause those at a dis- 
tance to suppose them to be. what we know they are 
not, the exponents of any considerable portion of the 
public thcuight of Massachusetts. Yet, perhaps he 
exigency has arisen, making it necessary to show 
•what is indeed the true national feeling of the Com- 
monwealth. If my name can be of service in this 
matter, it is at your disposal. 

Truly yours, Benj. F. Butler. 



LETTER FROM ISAAC DATIS. 

WoitcESTEH, Dec. 5, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — Your letter inviting me to be present 
at a meeting to be held at Fancuil Hall on Thursday 
next, to express national sentiments in view of the 
growing division of feeling between the Northern and 
Southern parts of the Union, is before me, and I 
heartily sympathise with the objects of the meeting, 
and shall endeavor to be present. I have no objec- 
tion to tlie committee making use of my name as sug- 
gested. With sentiments of great respect, I am gen- 
tlemen, your friend and obedient seivant, 

Isaac Datis. 



LETTER EROM GEO. B. LORING. 



LETTER PROM J. P. HEALY. 

Boston, Dec. 5, 1859. 
Dear Sir. — I have the honor to have received the 
circular letter of the Executive Coujiuiitee, appointed 
to make preparations for the meeting in Faneuil Hall 
on Thursday next, inviting me to be present at the 
meeting, and to permit my name to be used as that of 



Salem, Dec. 5, 1859. _ 
Gentlemen, — Your invitation to a'tend "a public 
meetiMK to be held at Faneuil Hall on Thursday ^^^^ ^^^^^ Vice-Presidents. Most cordially concur- 
next," by the Umon-loving citizens of Massacbuset s .^ ^^^ sentiments, which it is intended the meet- 
is receved, and I desi.e to express my thanks for jour j^ « ^j^^,j ^^ ^^^ disseminate, it will give me 
consideratum and my regrets that n.y presence vmU pleasure to be present and take part in the proceedings 
be prevented by a necessary jaurney to VVashmatoi. i„dicated by the committee. Very respectfully your 
The obj.ct of the meeting shou.d appeal o the patri.^^ ^^^^.^^^^ ^y^ j_'p_ ^^-^^^^ 
ism and hnnor of every good citizen. "1 he growing 

division of feeling between the Northern and Southern 

parts of the Union," has indeed assumed a formidable 

appearance; and yet every man will see that, in the 

midst of the impious and treasonable demonstrations 

which we have just witnessed, there is a =ound and 

healthy and religious conservatism, — a conservatism 

prompt to be heard in every crisis, but too unmindful 

of that " eternal vigilance" which may sustain good 

government at the ballot-box ; which will be our mgr and ain willing th? 

safetv and defence in all time to come, as it has been f'le ot th<- Vice-Fresid 



LETTER FROM MARSHALL P. AVILDER. 

Boston. Dec. 5, 1859. 

Gentlemen, — I am honored with your ciicular in 

relation to the proposed meeting at Faneuil Hall. I 

sympathize most heartily in the objpcts of the meet- 

nd am willing that my name should be used as 

" "ents on tliat occasion, or in 



in all time past, whenever dangers surround us. The any way that may best subserve the cause you are so 

use of my name, as one of the vice presidents, on an worthily seeking to advance. 

occasion when this conservatism, this regard for law \ours smcerely, MARSHALL P. WiLDEK. 



and social order, seeks expression, is a compliment 
for which you will please to accept my profound ac- 
knowledgments. Kespectfully your obedient servant, 
Geo. B. Lorino. 



letter prom e. d. reach. 



SriiiNGFiELD, Dec. 5, 1859. 



LETTER FROM R. SHERMAN. 

PAyvTvcKET, Dec. 5, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — Your invitation, " on behalf of the 
Executive Committee," to be present at a ineeting to 
be held on Thursday next, has this moment •come to 
hand. I shall deem it an honor to attend a meeting 
for the purpose indicated, and you are at liberty to 



Gen'lemen, — lam this moment in the receipt of make such use of my name in connexion with the 
your favor of the 3a inst., invjiiug me to be present at call therefor, as you may desire. Very respectfully, 



a public meeting in Faneuil Hall on the 8th, and ask- your obedient servant 
ing permission to nse my name as one of the Vice- 
Presidents. I do sreatlv rrjiice that from the men of 
BostoT. and frorf^iineui"l Hall, is to go forth a voice 
declaring that^^ritiniVnt and principles proclaimed 
atreemr mectW^M' B ston, professedly of sympa- 
.thy for the family'of John Brown, but really to exalt a 
murderer and glorify his deeds, are not the sentiment 
and principles of Boston and Massachusetts. What- 
ever the feeling of Massachusetts may be as to the in- 
stitution of slavery, she has not fallen so low in the_ 
scale of patriotism, she is not yet so lost to her posi- 
tion ana duty as to laud the armed invasion of a sis- 
ter State, as to justify and applaud the murdering of 
her citizens, as to embalm the memory of those whose 
hands are red and reeking with innocent blood. I do 
not ktiow that I can certainly be present on Thursday, 
but I am with you heart and hand. My name is at 
your service, and whether present or absent, I will hold 
myself in readiness for any service which I can render, 
and which you may command. With sentiments of 
the highest respect, your obedient servant, 

E. D. Beach. 



II. Sherman. 



LETTER FROM C. W. CART-WRIGHT. 

December 4, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — In reply to your note of 3d inst., I 
beg leave to say that 1 not only consent to have my 
name apiicar as one of the Vice-Presidents but shall 
be giatilied to have it there. I am, with much re- 
sptct, } our ob't servant, C. W. Cartavright. 



LETTER FROM D. N. CARPENTER. 

Greenfield, Dec. 5, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — Your note of 3d inst., inviting me to 
be present at a public meeting, to be held at Faneuil 
Hall, 8th inst., I have just received. The object of 
that meeting meets my approbation fully ; and I in- 
tenil to be present. Most respectfully, your obedient 
servant, D. N. Carpenter. 



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LETTER FROM SinXEY DAKTLETT. 

CovuT St.. Dec. 5, 1859. 

Hon. Wm. Appleton. — Dear Sir, — Any use thai the 
Committee for arranginc; the ine tini; at Faneuil Hall 
ma\' please to make of my name I consent to, as the 
object has my hearty concurrence. My taste and 
hal)its make me unwillii g to address the meetinpj. 

Very truly yours, S. Bartlett. 



LETTER FROM E. F. HODGES. 

42 Court St , Dec. 5, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — Your invltarion to attend a meeting 
at Fanenil Hall on the 8th inst., to express "National 
Sentiments," is gratefully received. I shall certainly 
attend, and have no d<\iht the expression of that 
meeting will have a healthful influence throughoutthe 
country. Any use of my name that seems to the 
Committee desirable in furtherance of the purpose of 
the nreeting, is cheerfully conceded. I .\m, gentle- 
men, very respectfully your obd't. serv't., 

E. F. Hodges. 



letter from e. b, bigelow. 

BoYLSTON St., Dee. 5, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — In reply to your communication, 3d 
instant, I have the honor tosay that I shall be lia[)py 
to have my name used as one df i he Vice Presidents 
of the proposed meetina; at Faneuil Hall, Thursday 
next, as I heartily symoafhis-^ wiiti the cause it is in- 
tended to promote. I am, gentlemen, very respect- 
fully yours, E. B. Bigelow. 



letter from benjamin M. FARLEY. 

Boston, Dec. G, 1859. 

Gentlenen, — I have just received your note of the 
3d inst., inviting me to be present at a public meeting 
to be held at Faneuil Hall in this city on Thursday 
next at 11 o'clock A. M., to express National senti- 
ments in V e\v of the growing division of feeling be- 
tween the Northern and Soutiiern parts of the Union. 

I deem the meeting of the highest importance, and 
consider it the imperious duty of every good citizen 
to aid in promoting the great object of this meeting. 

It will afford me much pleasure to be present on 
that occasion, and shall feel myself much honored by 
the position indicated. I am very respectfully your 
obedient servant, Benjamin M. Farley. 



LETTER FROM DAVID SEARS, JR. 

Boston, Dec. 6, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — 1 cordially approve of the above meet- 
ing, and authorize the use of my name as one of the 
Vice Presidents. ' Yours, D. Sears, Jr. 



LETTER FROM NATHANIEL SILSBEE. 

Salem, Dec. 5, 1859. 

Gentlemen, — As 1 mnch approve the object of the 
meeting at Faneuil Hall to be held on Thursday next, 
I am willing that my name should be used in aid of 
it. I am very desirous to be present at the meeting, 
but my engagements here will probably prevent. 

Very respectfully your obt svt. Nath. Silsbee. 



LETTER FROM CHARLES THOMPSON. 

Gentlemen,-You. gr^'^'ih^^^ u;£^kf VecSed "^ -«- -— - hogers. 

this niiirning. Sympathising; fully wiih the objects of Salem, Dec. 5, i859. 

the proposed meeting on Thursday next, 1 cheer- Gentlemen,— Your note of 3d inst. was received this 

fully complv with your request, tendering vou my morning, and fully sympathizing in the object for 

thanks for the honor you have thus conferred upon whicn the meeting of the 8Lh inst. is called, 1 cheer- 

me. Very respectfilly, your obedient servant, fi^l'y submit my name to be used as you desire. 

Charles Thompson. ^V'lth respect, your obdt svt. IlicH. S. Rogers. 



letter from GEO. PEABODY. 

Salem, Dec. 5, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — I shall be most happy to cooperate 
with you in the pn posed meeting at Faneuil Hall in 
any way in which you think I can be of service. Re- 
spectfuiiy yours, Geo. Peabody'. 



LETTER from R. NEWTON. 

Worcester, Dec. 6, 1859. 

Hon. Wm. Appleton — Sir, — I have received your in- 
vitation to be present at a (lublic meeting to be held 
at Faneuil Hall on the 8rh inst. I have long believed 
that our political aff lirs, both State and National, 
were in a false position, and hope they may be im- 
proved. 

I intend to be in Boston on Thursday next, and 
when there your Committee will make such disposi- 
tion of me a< they may think proper. Respectfully 
your obedient, R. Newton. 



LETTER FROM CALEB STETSON. 

Br.mntiiee, Dec. 6, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — Your favor under date of the 3d is at 
hand. It will give me pleasure to render your Com- 
mittee any aid to exnress in co-operation with all Na- 
tional men of New England their adherence to the 
Constitution and the Union — our country — the whole 
country, without distinction of party. I am truly 
vours, Caleb Stetson. 



letter from b. f. hallett. 
Gentlemen, — I shall esteem it an honor to have my 
name used as one of the Vice-Presidents at the pro- 
posed meeting in Faneuil Hall, to express national 
sentiments in view of the growing division of feeling 
between the Northern and Southern States. Such a 
meeting is eminently fitting to beheld in Boston, for 
if Massachusetts desires to enjoy the benefits of this 
Union, which has made all her prosperity, her consid- 
erate citizens in private life must give some assurance 
that as a people they do not mean to violate the obli- 
gations of constitutional as well as civil contracts. 
With great respect, B. F. Hallett. 



LETTER FROM EDWARD A. NEWTON. 

PiTTsFiED, Dec. 0, 1859. 
Gentlemen,— I have received your letter of the 3d 
instant, inviting me to attend a " public meeting, to 
be held in Faneuil Hall, to express national senti- 
ments, &c.," on Thursday next. When I heard of 
this proposed meeting on Saturday last, I determined 
to attend it, at whatever inconvenience to myself; 
and then, and since, I have been urged by many of 
my neighbors, among tne most intelligent, respecta- 
ble, and influential citizens, to do so, and represent 
them. Thus, Provid-nce permitting, I will assuredly 
come, and deem myself much honored by being nom- 
inated as one of the Vice-Presidents for the occasiou. 
Very respectfully, Edward A. .Newtox. 



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UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 



LETTER FROM LUTHER V. BELL. 

Chaklesto-wn, Dec. ,5, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — In reply to your note of the 3d inst., 
just received, I would say that the movement vvliich 
you forward has my fullest sympathy, and I shall be 
hapry to co-operate with you in any position in which 
1 may be placed. Very faithfully yours, 

Luther V. Bell. 



LETTER FROM MOSES WILLIAMS. 

BosTox, Dec. 3, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — In your note of this date, you ask me 
in behalf of the Executive Committee, to be present 
at a public mectin":, to be held at Fancuil Hall on 
Tliursday next, at li o'clock, A. M., to express nation- 
al sentiments in view of the growing division of feel- 
ing between the Northern and Southern parts of the 
Union. You also ask me to allow my name to be 
used as that of one of the Vice Presidents. I thank 
you, gentlemen, for the honor you have done me by 
the above invitation. I will be present at the meet- 
ing, and shall esteem it a privilege, and an honor to 
my name, to have it named and numbered among the 
Vice Presidents of that meeting. Very truly and re- 
spectfully your friend, Moses "Williams. 



LETTER FROM JAS. D. GREEN. 

Cambridge, Dec. 5, 1859, 
Gentlemen, — Heartily concurring with you in sen- 
timent as to the object of the meeting to be held at 
Taneuil Hall on Thursday next, I am happy to sig- 
nify my accc))tance of your invitation to be present; 
and shall esteem it an honor to have my name used, 
if such be jour desire, as that of one of the Vice 
Presidents on the occasion. Very respectfully yours, 
Jas. D. Greex. 



LETTER FROM ALANSOX TUCKER, JR. 

Boston, Dec. 5, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — It will give me pleasure to offer not 
only my name, but also my purse, if needed, to pro- 
mote the object of your circular. Your obedient ser- 
vant, Alanson Tucker, Jr. 



LETTER FROM NATHANIEL WOOD. 

FiTCHRUEG, Dec. 5, 1859. 

Gentlemen, — Y'our letter of 3d instant, in\iting me 
to be present at a public meeting to be held at Faneuil 
Hall on Tliursday next, for the purpose therein ex- 
])ressed, has been received. Permit me to say that I 
most cordially approve of the object of said meeting. 

My name is at your service — and I will endeavor to 
be present, if other pressing engagements will per- 
mit. Very respectfully your obdt. srrvt., 

Nathl. Wood. 



LETTER from GEO. MARSTON. 

BaKN STABLE, Dcc. 3. 1859. 
Gentlemen, — I have received the circular letter in- 
viting uie to lie present at a_ public meeting on the 
8th iiist. in Fanfuil Hall. The object meets my most 
cordial concurrence ; and I regret that an imperative 
engagement in Court prevents my attendance. You 
have liberty to use my name as an oliiccr of the meet- 
ing, or in any like mar.ner, in this business. Very 
truly jours, Geo. Marston. " 



LETTER from COL. ELLIS. 

SoiTH Carver, Dec. G, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — Your favor of the 3d inst. has just 
been received. I most fully concur in the object of 



the meeting, and shall feel highly honored to have my 
name used in such capacity as you may deem proper.' 
Very truly, your obd't servant. 

Matt. Ellis. 



letter from PROFESSOR PEIRCE. 

Camrridoe, Dec. 3, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — With all my heart I accept your invi- 
tation for the public meeting of Thursday next, and 
place myself and my name at your disposal. In so 
holy a cause, I am grateful to be permitted to serve 
my country. Very respectfully, 

Y'our obedient servant, 
Benjamin Peirce. 



letter FROM MAJOR PHINNEY. 

Barnstable, Dec. 5, 1859. 

Gentlemen, — I have very preat pleasure in seeing 
a call for a National meeting at Faneuil Hall. I shall 
esteem it an honor to be one of its Vice Presidents. 
It is certainly time for all National men to awake to 
patriotic action. 

The meeting will be approved of all over our glori- 
ous Union, by all who are opposed to the reckless 
fanaticism of the hour, and I most heartily wish that 
similar meetings would assemble in all the counties 
throughout New England and the entire North. Very 
respectfully, your obedient servant. 

S. B. Phinney. 



LETTER FROM FREDERIC TUDOR. 

Boston, Dec. 3, 1859. 
Dear Sir, — I observe by the circular of the Com- 
mittee, I am asked to act as one of the Vice Presi 
dents of the Faneuil Hall meeting. 

1 answer, I am willing in any way to contribute 
my feeble aid to a meeting so timely and so neces- 
sary. Y'our obedient servant, 

Frederic Tudor. 



LETTER FROM EDAVARD DICKINSON. 

Amherst, Dcc. 6, 1859. 

Gentlemen : I have received your circular of the 3d 
inst., inviting me "to be present at a public meeting 
to be held in Faneuil Hall on Thursday next, to ex- 
press National sentiments in view of the growing 
division of feeling betwesn the Northern and South- 
ern parts of the Union," and reply; 

That while I have no desire to appear upon the 
political stage in any public capacity, and perhaps do 
not fully appreciate the necessity or the importance 
of the proposed demonstration — 

And while I regard the tone of public sentiment, 
both at the North and the South, as intemperate and 
unpatriotic, and deserving of rebuke ; and the con- 
duct of many of the leading politicians in both sec- 
tions as unworthy of the respect or confidence of men 
who love the Constitution, and who regard our lie- 
public as a grand instrumentality, under the guidance 
of a wise Providence, in the scheme of universal civ- 
ilization and Cliristianiza'ion; and while the lowering 
of the standard of public morals, and the toleration of 
the want of integrity in public olHcers, forebodes only 
evil — 

I should rejoice, if it were consistent, to participate 
in a public meeting whose proceedings should savor 
of that true love of our country and its institutions — 
of that elevated patriotism which animated Washing- 
ton and Jefferson and Adams and Clay and Webster, 
and which should reooguize such men as statesmen, 
and hold them up liefoie the people as worthy of ad- 
miration and imitation. 

If the object i)f ths meeting is to utter only senti- 
ments which become us as American citizens, inde- 



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29 



pendent of party, and which will tend to strengthen 
the attaehinnnt of the peoi)le to the Union, to which 
we arc all indebted for the enjoyment of bi^h and dis- 
tinctive political rights and privileses as citizens and 
freemen at home ; and which furnishes us a passport 
and protection in all other lands and from all other 
governments, I bid you God speed. 

Believina; the meetina; to be called for these high 
purposes, I shall cordially co-operate in the adoption 
of any measures which have in view the promotion of 
public harmony, and the inculcation of correct and 
patriotic sentiments — always keeping in view that our 
Government is based on reciprocal compromises, and 
that each portion of our co\intry must respect these 
compromises ; and that each should manifest their 
self-respect, by showing their respect for the rights of 
all. Very respectfully and truly yours, 

Edwakd Dickinson. 



LETTER FROM HENRY HERSEY. 

HiNGHAM, Dec. 5, 1859. 

Dear Sir, — I received, this morning, a circular, to 
which your name was affixed, inviting me to be pres- 
ent at a meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall, on 
Thursday, the 8lh inst., to express national senti- 
ments, &c. 

It will give me much pleasure to be present on that 
occasion ; and you may say to the committee, I cheer- 
fully permit my name to be used in accoi dance with 
their desire. Very respectfully, yours, &c., 

Henry Hersey. 



LETTER FROM R. S. SPOFFORD, JR. 

Boston, Dec.G, 18.59. 
Gentlemen, — I have the the honor in reply to your 
letter of the 3d inst. to inform you that it will be a 
point of honor with nic to be present at the meeting 
in Faneuil Hall on Thursday next, to which it refers, 
and that it will give me pleasure to have my name 
used in this connection as you have been pleased to 
suggest. 

With sentiments of grateful acknowledgment for 
your attention, and of sincere personal respect, 
I remain, very respectfully, 

Your obedient servant, 
R. S. Spofford, Jr. 



LETTER from DANIEL FISHER. 

Edgartown, Dec. 7, 1859. 
Dear Sir, — The circular of the Executive Committee 
reached me last evening. It would very gratifying to 
join in the proposed meeting on Thursday next, but 
circumstances not under my control will prevent me 
from being present. 

I view it of great importance that there should now 
be an expression of national sentiments in Massa- 
chusetts to counteract the treasonable sympathies 
that have lately been manifested by Northern people. 
The Commttee are at liberty to use my name in 
any way they think proper. 

Respectfully, yours, 

Daniel Fisher. 



LETTER FROM JAMES H. CARLETON. 

Haverhill, Dec. 7, 1859. 
Gentlemen, — Yours of Dec. 3 found me in a sick 
room. I hoped to be with you, but to-day I am com- 
pelled to say I can be but in spirit I long to hear 
some of the "old Faneuil Hall" music, such as used 
to vibrate through the Commonwealth. Recreant 
sons are teaching treason and discord in places im- 
mortalized by patriot sires ; but thank God we have 
Everett, Winthrop, Hillard and a host of others, fit 
priests to serve at altars, whose fires were lighted by 
pilgrim hands. May these and others, on Thursday, 
religiously unmask hypocrisy, probe pretence, and 
dwarf treason, and once more bring acceptable offer- 
ings to the alter of true liberty. Progress and reform 
here mean forward one, back two ; and being played 
on a harp of a single string, the music sounds old. 
What we want now is a grand chorus to the tune of 
the "Constitu'ion and the Union : " it will be new to 
some, and will find a response in more hearts than 
you dream of. Very respectfully, 

Jas. H. Carle ton. 



LETTER from DR. JAMES JACKSON. 

Boston, Dec. 5, 1859. 
My Dear Sir, — lam not a public man, and have 
never taken part in any political matters, and have 
not any desire to do so. I regard the object proposed 
for the meeting on Thursday as highly important. I 
am old enough to remember the change produced in 
public affairs by the adoption of the Constitution of 
the United States, which went into operation in 1789. 
I pray for the maintenance of that Constitution ac- 
cording to its true intent. If possible, I shall attend 
the meeting on Thursday; but I fear that it will not 
be possible. I have not any objection to the use of 
my name, as proposed by your Committee. I am 
very truly, your friend, J. Jackson. 



LETTER from MAJOR TABER. 

New Bedford, Dec 6, 1859. 

Dear Sir, — I very much regret tliat business en- 
gagements will prevent me from being with you on 
the 8th inst., — the more so, as my sympathies are 
strongly enlisted in the movement. 

Trustina the demonstration will be a successful 
one, and exert a healthy influence on the community, 
I remain yours truly, I. C. Taber. 



LETTER from. WM. G. BATES. 

Westfield, Dec. 7, 1859. 

Gentlemen, — Your favor of Dec. 3d has just come 
to hand, on my return. It is impossible for me to 
attend at the public meeting, on the 8th ; but it would 
be a pleasure to hear "national sentiments" ex- 
pressed, which will be poorly compensated by the 
perusal of published reports. 1 have time only to say 
that I approve of any measures calculated to assure 
the whole country that, in all sections of it, there ex- 
ists a large proportion of the people who look with dis- 
approbation upon efforts to create "a division of feel- 
ing" betwfen the North and the South, and who 
regard such efforts not only as disgraceful to the 
actors, and a reproach to the community in which 
they originate, but exceedingly injurious to the inter- 
ests and character of the American Republic. 

You are at liberty to use my name in the way you 
propose ; and with the expression of my regrets that I 
cannot be with you, I am, very truly, 

VVm. G. Bates. 



letter from judge CURTIS. 

Boston, Dec. 7, 18-59. 

Gentlemen, — Though I cannot comply with your 
request to address my fellow-citizens at Faneuil Hall 
to-morrow, the object of the meeting has my entire 
approval. 

I understand that object to be to declare that any 
direct and forcible interference with slavery in Vir- 
ginia, or in any other State of the Union, by people 
of the non-slaveholning States, is a gross and bar- 
barous wrong, violating the public law, established 
for the peace of the world between States connected 
only by the law of nations, and still more offensive to 



30 UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 

that law which should govern the Stages of this Union and on the faces of multitudes touched by a cora- 
and their people in their treatment of each other : 

Th:.t when such an interference with slavery has mon sympathy, as some patriotic emotion was 

been attempted, anv expression of sympathy with the , „ ■, , .1 *•„„ *.„<•*!, i i 

,„ • ' , „, • , -,„ , „ . „i (T- ■ J u„ .-i^ awakened by the sentiments 01 the several speak- 

enterprise must justly be deemed offensive and hostile •' ^ 

to the State and people against whom it has beep di- ers, — bore a witness not to be mistaken of the 
rected : 

That because the principal actor in such an attempt spirit which animated them, 

has shown couras^e and steadiness in his wrong, and _ _ i, • j 

an apparent inability to appreciate its enormity, we It was our own good fortune to be so situated 

should not be diverted from our just judgment of his ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ the whole; and we declare, 
act, by our attention to what we suppose to be the 

qualities or motives of the agent : that we have attended no public assembly so 

That John Brown, together with his confederates 

■who came from or remained in the non-slaveholding thoroughly imbued with the thoughts and feel- 
States, undertook to make an insurrection against the 



laws and government ot the Slate of Virginia, which 



ngs becoming the occasion. The audience seemed 



has the same right to govern itself as the Slate of composed of men whose minds were awake to the 

Massachusetts has : ^ 

That his preparations and acts, and those of his ntense importance of the object Avliich had called 
confederates, present and absent, show, in the most 

coiivincing manner, that they contempiated not only them together,— whose hearts were swelling with 

civil disturbance, but bloodshed, in the execution of . „ »• i • * ^ i n * 

their design • pent-up emotions, longing to find adequate ex- 

And that it is incumbent on all who love peace and pression,— who were intent, earnest, resolved, — 
respect law, to feel and express a decided and unquali- 
fied condemnation of this enormous wrcmg, and of the and who responded, therefore, instantly, to the 
conduct of all who, directlv or indirectlv, favored it, ,. , ^ , , . , -, . . 
or who hold up the crime ' itself, or its agents, as remotest link of the electric chord,— as a stirring 

worthy of public approval. r .. , thought or word vibrated along the chain. It was 

Understanding this to be the purpose of the meet- ° ° 

ng, I repeat, it has my entire and hearty approval. no abstract question of mere political expediency 

1 remain, gentlemen, with great respect, your 

edient servant, B. R. Ccktis. or even of national policy which was before them. 

An irreparable calamity, nearer or more remote, 

seemed to overhang their common country, — their 

.^ ^ , ^ ■ j.^ «., , noble country and its institutions, — that for which 
[From the Boston Courier of Dec. 9th.] 

their fathers bled, and which they so fondly cher- 

A lll^ ^jL&£!ii\l. iTifijiil. Siltjl* ished. It was a real, pressing, formidable dan- 

ger ; yet capable of being turned aside, if met like 

It would be entirely impossible to overstate the men : and no person could look upon the 

remarkable and most gratifying characteristics of assembly at Faneuil Hall and help feeling 

the powerful demonstration yesterday forenoon, at that they met it like men, — thoughtful, respon- 

the Old Cradle of Liberty. The morning was ible men, ready to renew their vows to the 

unpropitious. The lingering storm, of three or Constitution of their country, ready to fight, 

four days' duration, still obscured the sky, a light if need be, and conquer or die in defence of the 

snow descended, and every wintry indication was Union, which demagogues and fanatics had so 

manifest in the city. No doubt, the state of the madly put in peril. We have heard those who 

weather kept many of our more distant friends have witnessed much in the jiast history of the 

from responding to the call. But though they country pronounce that no such meeting, in point 

would have been cheerfully welcomed, if present, of numbers and enthusiasm, has been held in 

the idea of penetrating into Faneuil Hall, after Fan-^uil Hall, since revolutionary times. "\Ve 

the hour appointed for the meeting, was vain, can well believe th's, — we are sure it could never 

In fact, it was completely filled and packed in have been surpassed. We look from it for the 

every part, for the entire three hours and more most beneficial results in clearing away a cloud 

during which the exercises continued. 13ut the of prejudice, which has hung over our beloved 

spirit of the assembly was even more significant old Commonwealth. Say what we will — Boston 

than its numbers. The close attention, the earn- is the North, — more distinctly and emphatically 

csl feeling, which this vast crowd manifested from than any other part of it. We may well believe 

egining to end, — the frequent tears in the eyes thut the doings ot yesterday, therefore, will 



UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL IIAIX. 31 

one day avert from this country the greatest evil appropriate, fi.rvent and lofty in tone than 
which has impended over it since the Constitu- the prayer of Ur. Bla^dcn. The resolu- 
tion, — that misrepresentation will be silenced, — tions submitted were every one applauded 
fanaticism be checked,— a barrier and an obstacle earnestly in their turn, both in parts and the 
interposed to the headlong course of much recent whole. In eloquence and warmth and practical 
madness and folly, and that more amicable rela- force, we could not but think that Mr. Everett 
tions may now be established between the Xorth surpassed all his previous efforts. Mr. Gushing 
and the South, than have existed since the period enchained the attention of the audience by a 
of our revolutionary history. speech, so clear, forcible and fairly overwhelming 
If such benefits result from the congregation of in its effect, that its influence could not be ex- 
the good men of Massachusetts, constituting the ceeded. The nobly patriotic letter cf Ex-Presi- 
vast majority of her people, who Avere so nobly dent Pierce, rising high above the considerations 
represented in Faneuil Hall, yesterday, we and of party, and contemplating Avith the eye of a 
our posterity will have good reason to bless the statesman the conditions and prospects >f the 
day and the occasion, to the latest moment of our country and the imperative duty of its citizens, 
lives. "We do not propose to make any enlarged fitly closed th proceedings. The audience wait- 
comments upon the exercises. As the officers ed Avith interest to the last, and Avould haA'e 
and speakers entered the hall, and the crowd remained hours longer for addresses from leading 
made way for them, the vast assembly gave the men. 

most undoubted signs that it rejoiced to meet The meeting Avas held in the middle of day, as 

once more, face to face, the men in whom they exhibiting a more marked and serious interest in 

might justly have confidence, at any and every the occasion. In every point of vicAv it was a 

most trying period in the fortunes of the country, most remarkable and significant demonstration. 

The speeches answer emphatically for them- Nothing failed, which Avas expected or desired, 

selves. Gov. Lincoln's opening remarks, but all Avas completely successful. It Avill haA-e 

coming from an old and venerated citizen of the most powerful and salutary influence. It is 

seventy-scA'en years, are in many respects re- a day and an occasion long to be remembered 

markable for their spirit and wisdom and high Avith the most unmeasured satisfaction in the 

intellectual power. Nothing could be more annals of the country. 



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State House, Boston,_ and is o the reading public as Articles of the Courier, in diction, construction and 
interesting, entertaining, and ins ructive a paper as f^^-^^^ ^^ ,^g„ ^^ f^^^^ ^^^ j j „,i^ht serve as models 
can be fouud in the country. It has an abe corps of ^f ^^^ ^.riting for the .student Tn any province in 
editors, several of whom rank very high in the literary literature, 
world. While we find many things to dislike in the 

Courier, we always like its fearless independence, and [From the New Orleans Picayune.] 

its open enunciation of its opinions. It is no mere ^ _, „ „ t, t> ^ 

echo of other people's thoughts -no mere sycophant „ The Boston Evening Courier. The Boston 

at the footstool of power, but it is a power'in itself, Courier, one of the ablest journals in the Union, has 

mightv in forming and leading public opinion. Com- commenced the issue of an evening eel, ion, several 

merciulbj, ^Ae Courier is in the front rank of papers, mnnbers of which we have received. The evening, 

while, as a reporter of law cases 'and decisions, U \s at ^'^'^ ^'^^ morning paper, presents a remarkably hand- 

(hc head of the newspaper press. ?T° ^PPe^irance, and evidences of good taste and 

•' '.If judgment in the variety and attractiveness ot its 

[From the Boston Journal.] contents. The Evening Courier, we imagine, will 

In point of editorial talent and ability, the Courier is quickly become a favorite in the refined and intel- 

in the foremost rank among the American newspapers, lectual home circles, not in New England only, but 

throughout the Union. 
[From the Boston Herald, Oct. 7th, 1858.] 
Boston Evening Courier.- Our conservative con- [I''"""'^ t^'e Mobile Advertiser.] 

temporary, the Courier, which, under the management Q;^ The Boston Courier, one of the best journals in 
of Messrs. Clark, Fellows & Co., has become one of New England, and conducted with marked taste and 
the ablest journals in this country, entered a new field ability, has commenced the issue of an evening edition, 
of enter|»rise yesterday afternoon, bj' issuing an even- It is to contain less political matter and more iniscel- 
iiig edition of tlie paper. The new candidate for post laneous reading than the morning paper. So says the 
meri<liiin favors from tlie public looks, in a typograplii- Journal of Commerce, and we subscribe to every word 
cal point of view, as neat and tasteful as tlie •' art pre- of its commendation of the Courier. It is an excel- 
serv;iti'-e " is capable of producitig. Of its excellence, lent, conservative Journal, and we are glad to see it 
jiorially, the rapid disposal of a large edition is meeting the success its merits. 










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